I paid $250 to be kidnapped in LA why it was worth every penny

Last week, I paid $250 online.In return, I was kidnapped.I received a time slot, coordinates to a vacant dispensary in North Hollywood, and an invitation to “hunt aliens.” A week later, exactly at my allotted time, I knocked on the door.

A man answered, hissing at me to not look anyone in the eyes.He smelled terrible.  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story Inside the dispensary, after the man taped my wrists and hands together, I pieced together what exactly was happening to me, and I decided to make a run for it.As I scrambled to my feet, the man began screaming at me. A different, shirtless man tackled me to the ground, while a woman in a nurse’s outfit shoved fruit gel/pop rocks concoction into my mouth to render me “optimal for alien reproduction.”Thirty minutes later, I was back home and working on a piece of writing I hadn’t touched in years. California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!This is the untapped power of LA’s culture of immersive theater.

It’s the cure to the city’s collective creative burnout.Los Angeles is full of experiences and events to chose from.You can play pickleball, take an improv class, go on a bar crawl, or stare at a wall and do nothing at all.Me? I’ve spent hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours on immersive theater events in one of the best cities for immersive theater. Like many Angelenos, creativity and invention are parts of my livelihood. I’ve gleefully let my imagination, my inner child, my sense of unencumbered play — whatever you call...