American Women Arrested For Faking April Fools Shooter Jokes

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Two American women intent on ‘pranking’ their family members have been arrested for taking April Fool jokes just a little bit too far, unintentionally involving authorities, and are now looking at the very real possibility of serious jail time.

In one case a woman in the state of Kansas was arrested after making a phone call to her daughter and claiming she had been shot.

According to reports and Lt. Ronald Hunt of the local Wichita police force, “multiple police units, probably between 15-20 officers from the Wichita Police Department as well as fire department and EMS responded to the scene.”

Neither local police nor the daughter of the woman later identified as Arnthia Willis aged 58, were aware it was a prank, with Ms. Willis senior at work when she made the call.

Her arrest was based on an illegal request for emergency service assistance according to local authorities.

In a nation where shootings, even mass shootings are at times a daily occurrence, little intelligence had gone into the initial call it would appear.
In another, unrelated, but similarly inane case in Ohio, another woman, also in her 50s was also arrested for claiming a person was on the rampage with a gun.
Sending a text message to her sister claiming that there was a shooter at a facility in which the sender worked, her sister called local authorities who responded appropriately.
Maj. Chris Clark of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office later described it as “Basically she had called her sister and said something to the effect of a guy was fired yesterday and has come back in with a gun. We are all hiding in a locked office and asked her to call the police.”
Chris Clark went on to add “She put a lot of people in danger today over a stupid joke,” with Sheriff Deb Burchett adding “It’s sick. It’s a sick joke that’s what it is, and it’s not a joke as far as I’m concerned.”

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