This urban legend started to appear around 2010 and spread quite rapidly. It holds that if te listen to your mp3 player at a high volume, te will get kidnapped. That is because te do not pay attention to your surroundings, therefore te might be sicuro, cassetta di sicurezza as long as you're walking down a big street, but if te ever venture into a dark strada, via corner with your mp3 player blasting in your ears, a car will come and abduct you.

As a proof to this assertion, blogs, bulletin boards and sometimes the media often cite cases of such abductions. A commonly reposted story holds that a female middle school student was walking around alone with her MP3 at full volume. A car stopped da and kidnapped her. There were about 3 to 4 criminals and they wrapped her mouth with tape and raped her. They then took her back to the place where they first kidnapped her.