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Trapped in the trunk.

It was about 11:30 Wednesday night, and Bronx parking garage attendant Felipe Perez, 48, was only half an hour shy of his shift's end. That's when he says two men in hooded jackets appeared and told him that they had to pick something up.

Unfortunately, the thing they needed to pick up was something they didn't want Perez to see. Simply asking him to turn his back while they went about their business clearly wasn't good enough, so they allegedly pulled guns and forced Perez into the trunk of a livery cab. Then they stole two motorcycles.

Perez, meanwhile, sat quietly in the trunk until he was sure they'd gone away. Then he began kicking and screaming. Then he remembered the cell phone in his pocket. Half an hour later-just in time to go home-he was released. One of the motorcycles was found abandoned not far from the garage. We'd guess police are currently looking for two men riding piggyback on a single bike.