Pranksters Arrested After Staging Fake Murder To Scare Friend

[Champ]

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. -- A couple of guys in Oregon who started drinking early in the morning thought it would be funny to stage a murder scene.

But by the end of the day, they weren't laughing. They were jailed and so was their friend, the subject of the prank.

An alarmed Daniel Maerz told police he walked into the house and found 31-year-old Adam Vickers dead from a gunshot wound. He believed his friend had been killed by his roommate, Kyle Wisdom. After his emergency call, police rushed to the scene, ordering a lockdown of a nearby elementary school on their way.

But after realizing their house was surrounded by police, Vickers and the roommate decided they'd better go outside and explain it was all a joke intended to scare Maerz.
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[Historic NY]

1. Oh the evils of alcohol........it brings out the stupidity..........

what did they expect would happen once the cops were called. The caller even had meth on him.

[KurtNYC]

2. Some guys I know had a neighbor who watched them

all the time. Her kitchen window faced their kitchen window and she would practically stare at them when they were in their kitchen. So they cooked up a scheme where they had a little argument, one grabs a kitchen knife, the other drops down below the window where the neighbor can't see him, the knife goes down then comes back into her view with ketchup on it and the apparent stabber, seeing what he has supposedly done, drops the knife and stumbles off in confusion and guilt.

Well yes she called the police. They came, found my friends' apartment in perfect order. And they tell the police, 'hey, this woman is nuts and a peeper.' The police went and talked to the woman. But still generally not a good idea.

[el_gato]

3. there is no reason they should be arrested

playing a joke on a friend is not a crime