Stag do prank causes shingles

[Jan Klimkowski]

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"Get out of the car!" Moment fiance is 'kidnapped' by 16 baseball wielding 'thugs' for stag party prank "It was hilarious - he was so terrified he was about to shake out of his skin. We didn't mean to give him shingles, but it was worth it"

This is the moment 16 hooded men jumped out of a white van and kidnapped a terrified groom-to-be - for a prank.

Wearing balaclavas, brandishing baseball bats and setting off smoke bombs the stags surrounded the car Ollie McAninch, 33, was driving down a quiet country lane with his fiancee Clair Hart.

They stopped the car, pulled him out and dragged him to the ground where they bound and gagged him before bundling him into the back of a van.

As the 'attack' started Clair pretended to scream with terror but as soon as Ollie was dragged from the car she started to laugh at what was happening to her fiance.

Unfortunately for the management consultant the 'gag' didn't end there. Terrified Ollie was ordered to change into a Guantanamo-style jumpsuit and driven more than 100 miles to the Devon countryside where he was stripped and told to wear a lime-green Borat-style mankini.

He was then handed a rusty bike and map and told to cycle ten miles to the venue for his stag party - an outdoor activity 'boot camp' centre.

The stress of the ordeal caused Ollie to suffer shingles, an illness often found in combat veterans, and he was told to keep away from Clair for a month.

Fortunately for both of them he recovered in time for the wedding and the pair tied the knot last Saturday in front of 130 guests.
Ollie, from Bath, Somerset, said: "I was absolutely terrified. We were stuck behind this van that had 'Turkish bailiff' printed on the back.

"Then all of a sudden, all these men dressed in black balaclavas burst out of the bushes and dragged me out of the car.

"They put me in handcuffs, slapped me around a bit and threw me into the back of the van. I have never been so scared in my entire life - I didn't know what was going to happen. I was petrified with fear."

The gang struck on a country lane outside Bath as Ollie headed out on what he thought was a day trip with Clair.

It was the week before the planned date of his stag do - but unbeknown to him his stags had brought the date forward.

The prank was planned with military-style precision - including codenames and a 14-page plan for the 'elite strike team' on how to apprehend the 'target'.

Called "Operation Haggis", the plan detailed a "non-elite strike team to intercept and kidnap the subject and deliver safely to rendezvous point".