8:50am UK, Saturday June 04, 2005

A suspected captive thrown into the boot of a car "freed" by police turned out to be a willing sex slave playing a kinky game.

The 39-year-old man was pulled out of the car in Germany wearing nothing but a leather thong and collar.

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Couple engaged in S&M

An alarmed onlooker called police in the southern town of Bayreuth after seeing a woman locking someone in the boot.

But the supposed kidnapping turned out to be nothing more than a couple getting their sexual kicks.

A police spokesman said: "It turned out they were a couple from the S&M scene.

"The mistress was driving with the slave in the boot."

Officers took no action against the couple other than to tell the man to hop into the front seat, complete in his leather gear, as the boot was unsafe.