We saved one of my childhood friends from an abduction in NYC during the 70's....while playing at the local park, we saw a kid being dragged away towards the projects across the street by 2 strangers....we alerts a few friend and followed them while one rode his bike to find the beat cop....back in the 70's there were still neighborhood cops that walked a beat....

When the abductors saw our group following, they stopped and told us they are detectives and we were interfering with official business....being street wise city kids, we didn't fall for that....we told them that we already sent a kid out to get the beat cop and they can explain it to him....

at this time some of the older kids came from the park with baseball bats and surrounded the 2 abductors.....they release the crying kid and started rapidly walking away, we followed a couple of blocks until a police cruiser came up and made the arrest.....

The 2 were known pedos that served prison time .....