'Kidnapping' for love

It's understandable that some men try fancy approaches, such as dancing in snow half-naked or arranging iPhones in heart shape, to pay court to their beloved, but in this story an ex-boyfriend went too far.

The man from Central China's Henan province was determined to save his relationship after his fiancée decided to break up with him. Wearing a mask, he kidnapped the girl at her home and made a phone call to himself to demand a ransom of 20,000 yuan ($3,218). He later returned with his face mask off, clothes changed and a knife scar in his arm, which he claimed he sustained when the "kidnapper" attacked him when he went to pay the ransom at the "rendezvous".

But the kidnap-and-rescue trick did not fool the police, and he was detained on kidnapping charges.

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