May 18, 2007
Costumed Teens Arrested
Stumble it!Some armed police in England thought they were in for a serious incident after chasing two supposedly armed assailants along the M62 near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The police cornered the pair in a supermarket parking lot only to discover the threatening miscreants in question were two 19-year-old girls in costume.
The girls, Holly Spedding and Fatima Rupp, attended a Cowboys and Indians theme night at Chester University. The girls, still in full costume, joked with passing motorists and truckers along their route back to Harrogate.
“The lorry drivers were pretending to shoot me with their fingers,” said Rupp. “So, I pointed the toy gun back at them. Everyone was smiling and laughing.”
Everyone except for an off-duty police officer who misread the situation and called in a report on the girls for threatening other motorists. The chase was on, and before the girls knew it, they were being pursued by half a dozen police cars as well a at least one helicopter.
“We were petrified,” explained Spedding. “When we stopped they came screeching up and surrounded us. There were four jeeps, two vans full of dogs, armed police, helicopters and they were screaming: ‘Where’s the gun?’.”
The girls were taken into custody and held for hours while police finished their investigation.
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