Annoying trend: Kidnapping hoaxes

Teenage and twentysomething girls and boys planning kidnapping hoaxes, can I have a moment of your time? Stop making up abduction stories. Just don’t. In the last two weeks, we’ve had at least three kidnapping hoaxes. Three. And it’s really becoming tiresome.

First,  20-year-old Gabriella Birelas — a mother of two children — claimed she was kidnapped by three Hispanic men from her home in the

500 block of Westview Drive on May 12. Never happened, police say.