LENS CAP A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE NATIONAL RISE OF A TOLEDO FILMMAKER

Jeez, what’s a guy gotta do to get kidnapped in Colombia these days?

Try as he might — and he’s trying his damndest — Toledo native, financial planner and filmmaker Carleton “Cap” Averill II can’t find anyone to do the deed.

Averill recently returned to the South American country to film footage for his new film “Kidnapped in Bogota.” The plot: He walks up to Bogota natives and asks them, in a polite way, to kidnap him. Should be easy enough; kidnappings in Colombia have been featured news for decades. But all Averill gets for his Borat-like antics are confused looks and hearty laughs from Bogota residents. Averill is disappointed. Is this the same kidnap-happy Colombia that provided the backdrop for “Romancing the Stone?”
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