This prank was criminally unhealthy.
A South Carolina man allegedly hid in his ex-girlfriend’s bathe after which emerged with a knife when she acquired dwelling early Sunday in an alarming try to “prank” her and “lighten the temper,” he stated, based on authorities.
Jackson Collum Arnold, 25, used a pair of his ex’s bike shorts and a hat to cowl most of his face, however was bare from the waist down as he gave his former girlfriend a paralyzing scare round midnight, Charleston cops alleged.
The sufferer accused Arnold of holding a knife to the facet of her head, and when she pushed him away, he pretended he was slicing her throat, although the knife didn’t contact pores and skin, based on a police report obtained by information retailers.
He then allegedly choked her earlier than the sufferer yanked the shorts off the suspect’s face and found the person attacking her was her on-again-off-again boyfriend, the police report states, based on WCBD.
The sufferer instructed police she feared for her life and thought she was about to be raped inside her storage condominium earlier than she noticed it was Arnold.
However the awful jokester claimed to authorities he solely snuck into her dwelling to “shock” her and “lighten the temper” after the pair acquired right into a struggle over textual content earlier that evening, based on the police doc additionally reported on by WCIV.
His underwear was reportedly discovered inside the toilet by officers, although he did have a pair of denims on when police reached the scene, because of a 911 name.
Arnold allegedly went to nice lengths to hold out the prison ruse, together with parking a number of hundred ft from the property the sufferer shares together with her household, who stay in the home connected to the storage.
He additionally saved his cellphone at dwelling as a result of he may need been sharing his location together with her utilizing the Life360 app, based on the police report.
He was booked early Sunday on costs of assault and battery, first-degree housebreaking and possession of a weapon throughout a violent crime.
