
"Scrobbling" appears as a descriptive term for kidnapping in John Masefield's "Box of Delights", a British book published in 1937. Did it also involve throwing a black bag over the Scrobblee's head? My English readers will have to tell me whether this is slang which is still in use - it has, of course, been coopted as an internet term as has...well, almost everything else.
Fat Cats beware!