ORLANDO, Fla. -- A controlled experiment outside Central Florida homes found that a stranger with puppies could easily lure children into leaving inside a van.

Armed with a van filled with hidden cameras, a Local 6 executive producer posing as a stranger with two puppies pulled into a Seminole County neighborhood.

With the parents' permission and blessing, Local 6 began a stranger danger test.

The first test involved a large group of children ranging in age from 4 to 8 years old.

It took less than a minute before the children not only came close to the van but and then piled inside.

"It's actually terrifying to think how fast and how easy it would be for someone to pull into your neighborhood and take off with your children and in a matter of seconds they would have been gone," a father said after seeing his children climbing into the van with a stranger.

"That's frightening," parent Christie Sloan said. "I can't believe that."

The report said many of the children wanted to ride around with the so-called stranger.

Parents involved in the experiment said they were shocked after watching how their children reacted to the stranger.

"Do you know this man?" a parent asked her child. "He is a stranger. Why would you get in this car?"

The "stranger" then targeted two young girls playing hopscotch in a home's driveway.

With their mothers watching from a distance, the Local 6 producer pulled up and one of the girls immediately ran to the puppies.

Another girl, Lyndsey, was the only child to run away. She fled and immediately found her parents.

"You don't expect to leave her for even a second," Eileen, one of the girl's mothers, said. "You saw how fast that happened. I mean, we don't usually leave our kids outside but you could step in for a moment (and a person could) have a cute dog and she is gone."

The experiment then tested two sisters and a brother outside a home.

The children again fell for the "puppy trap." The parents involved in the report said the experiment was a valuable lesson for their own children and for others.

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