Dad ‘kidnapped’ in prank
A GROUP of pals refused to take no for an answer when a dad cancelled on a lads’ drinking session – so stormed his house and ‘kidnapped’ him, chucked a pillowcase over his head and bundled him into a minibus.
Ian McLeod felt he was ‘too old’ to join his son Liam’s boozy day out so told him he wouldn’t be coming just hours before the 15-strong group headed to Stockport.
However the lads ‘wouldn’t take no for an answer’ and quickly hatched a plan to ‘kidnap’ the 56-year-old from his Southport, Merseyside, home in an ‘A-Team’ stunt and take him with them anyway.
Hilarious footage shot from inside the van shows pal Steve Adcock demand ‘we’ve got to just go for it’ before barking orders at the giggling group as The A-Team theme tune plays in the background.
When they arrive they jump from the vehicle, barge into the house, sling a pillowcase over Ian’s head and hoist him by his arms and legs from the living room and out of the front door.
Shoeless Ian shouts for help and grabs onto the minibus’ roof as they hoist him over the back seats before his son Liam chucks a pair of trainers in over his head and
they slam the door shut. The smug group can be seen filing into the van before driving off – completing their madcap ‘mission’ in under a minute.
The video has racked up more than 900,000 views since son Liam McLeod shared it on TikTok earlier this month and users have hailed the prank ‘hilarious’ and the group ‘brilliant mates.’
Liam, 36, who grabbed one of his pillowcases on the minibus drive to his dad’s house, says some of the group were nervous the mechanic would fight back but were excited to pull off the stunt. Ian has since
revealed he’s glad the lads kidnapped him because he enjoyed the trip out and said he was relieved wife Yvonne McLeod, 56, who helped mastermind the kidnapping, made sure he wasn’t in his underwear.
Ian said: “I was about to take the dogs out when they came through the door. I knew pretty quickly they were coming to get me. “Some of them were a bit apprehensive, they didn’t fancy getting on the wrong side of me. It’s a good job it wasn’t serious.
“I didn’t resist that much. I’m just glad they remembered my shoes.”
I knew pretty quickly they were coming to get me. I’m just glad they remembered my shoes Ian McLeod