2 Kids Nap Through Their Kidnaping : Crime: Brothers are asleep in camper when a thief drives away with it. They are found unharmed.

If being kidnaped overnight is traumatic to little boys, Joshua and Dustin Scarlett sure didn’t show it Wednesday.

The boys seemed more intent on watching a video of “Pinocchio” than in retelling the story of how they were sleeping in the back of their father’s camper when a thief stole the truck and rode away, apparently unaware of the children.

“They slept through the whole thing,” said their father, Stanley Scarlett, 44, of Paramount. “They never even knew it moved.”

When Joshua, 8, and Dustin, 10, woke up in a Long Beach neighborhood, they weren’t sure what to make of it. A woman who had heard news reports that two boys had been kidnaped in a green truck spotted them.

“This lady came to the camper and she said, ‘Am I all right,’ and I said, ‘Yes,’ ” said Joshua, a third-grader at Mokler Elementary School in Paramount. “Then she told me she was calling the cops.”

That’s when Joshua and Dustin said they realized something was wrong.

“It scared me when the cops came,” said Dustin, a fourth-grader.

Until then, the boys thought their father had driven them to the 6000 block of Coronado Avenue.

“I thought Dad was in this house visiting with his friends,” Joshua said.

Shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday, the elder Scarlett had placed his sleepy children in the back of his camper after visiting friends in North Long Beach. Scarlett said he went back to the house to help clean up. But when he came out 10 minutes later, his 1973 Chevrolet truck with a camper shell was gone.

Scarlett spent Wednesday morning waiting nervously by the phone and pleading with reporters to stop calling in case his sons tried to phone home. Around noon, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department called with the news the boys had been found unharmed.

Authorities said they have no suspects in the incident. “Investigators suspect the thief didn’t realize the children were in the truck,” said Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Spear.

Scarlett complimented his young sons for keeping their cool when they woke up and found they were alone.

“They’ve done what I always told them to do--stay right there,” Scarlett said. “We’ve done much camping, and I always tell them, ‘Don’t lose sight of the camper.’ ”

Meanwhile, the boys seemed unfazed by all the attention. “It’s another one,” Joshua announced to his father when a reporter knocked on their door.

“It’s been a very busy day,” Scarlett said. “There’s been a lot of media. We’ll be old news tomorrow, but today, I know, this is one with a happy ending.”