Lampshaded with This Troper. She recently had a dream in which the RoguesGallery from Batman broke into her garage. They decided to kidnap her, and she ran off. The bad guys did not give chase, so she doubled back and allowed herself to be kidnapped, actually saying "It wouldn't be a good story if I got away."

This Troper's friend managed to successfully pull this off his dog.

This Troper once wrote an essay about it.

This troper's DungeonsAndDragons group has a master of this. He never explains what is he doing, but is nearly always effective at whatever he is doing.