Police in Ky. charge man in Halloween gag

The Associated Press

PARIS — When a Paris chicken restaurant employee found her boss lying in a pool of blood, she ran screaming from the restaurant and called police.

WKYT-TV in Lexington reported the scenario was set up by Joe Watkins as a Halloween prank on one of his workers at the Chicken Ranch restaurant. Her name wasn’t revealed.

Watkins said he tried calling the woman’s cell phone to tell her it was a prank, but she didn’t answer. He says he also called police to tell them it was a gag.

They came anyway and charged Watkins with making a false report.

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8 Responses to “Police in Ky. charge man in Halloween gag”


  1. 1 n

    How can they charge him with making a false report when he didn’t make one? The employee called police, not him.

  2. 2 Mako

    Thats rediculous! I guess the rest of Paris is crime free and the P.D. has nothing better to do than file false charges for making a false report.

  3. 3 Monica Hess

    She should have takena big stick and beat the crap out of him as soon as she found out it was a “joke”. No jury would have convicted her.
    Those kind of jokes are not funny.

  4. 4 john

    Sheriff Taylor is going to be very upset with Barney when he gets back in town.

  5. 5 Tom

    The man should not have been charged, the employee should have been charged with being an idiot.

  6. 6 Bob

    What a great prank. Wish I had thought of it.

    Bob

  7. 7 David Hamblin

    You dark blue background and very small fonts make your pages very difficult to read.

  8. 8 mindhunter

    lmao @ johns response

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