Mom's April Fool joke results in 20 cops, fire, EMS response and her arrest

[Demovictory9]

Mom's April Fools' Joke Results in Her Arrest
Wichita woman arrested after telling daughter she'd been shot

Mom's April Fools' Joke Doesn't Amuse Police

(NEWSER) – Even if this were a normal year when April Fools' jokes were in style, this one surely would have missed the mark. A 58-year-old woman in Wichita ended up arrested after calling her daughter to say she'd been shot, reports KSN. Her understandably freaked-out daughter called police. "Multiple police units, probably between 15 to 20 officers from the Wichita Police Department as well as fire department and EMS responded to the scene," police Lt. Ronald Hunt tells the Wichita Eagle.

When nobody answered the door, officers busted it down with guns drawn. As it turns out, nobody was home. Mom Arnthia Willis was actually at work, safe and sound. "Through further investigation, we learned that this was an April Fools' joke played on the daughter by the mother," says Hunt. Willis has been charged with unlawful request for emergency service assistance.

https://www.newser.com/story/304426/moms-april-fools-joke-doesnt-amuse-police.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

Police say Arnthia Willis, 58, called a family member this morning and said she had been shot.

The concerned family member called 911 around 8:30 a.m. Dispatchers sent multiple officers, EMS, even firefighters, to what they thought was a shooting at a home in the 4800 block of E. Arlene.

Officers surrounded the home, blocked streets, and tried to reach out to anyone inside the home. When they did not get a response, they went into the home. It was empty.

Police investigated and say they learned it was an April Fools’ Day joke.

https://www.ksn.com/news/crime/wichita-woman-arrested-in-dangerous-april-fools-day-prank/

[lpbk2713]

1. Perfectly normal for her daughter to react that way.

If she has been watching the news lately.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Stupid ass woman needs to be charged and arrested.

Sheesh, what a shithead thing to do.

[Demovictory9]

5. she was

[SallyHemmings]

3. In what corner of your brain

Would that seem funny?

[Skittles]

7. that gal needs a mental health evaluation

it's just plain disturbing behavior

[bullwinkle428]

4. She saw all the "gender reveal" shit go bad recently, and said "Hold my beer"!

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. NOICE!

[Stuart G]

6. Stupid is stupid & still stupid...Many stupid people get away with it, & others think they can

also get away with it too..

[Tanuki]

8. What a cruel thing to do to her daughter. Can't see any "joke" in this at all.

[Blue Dawn]

9. I wouldn't do this to one of my children....

....if someone offered me a million dollars.

Nothing funny about this at all. It was a cruel thing to do.

I hope she has to spend time in jail for her stupid behavior.

[Notek]

10. Holy shit!

Lucky her daughter wasn't killed in a traffic accident while speeding to her mother's house to help her.

[stillcool]

11. what a weird sense of humor...

lucky the cops didn't kill anyone.

[alittlelark]

12. F U N N Y .... yeah - stoopid person doing STOOPID things.

[Wounded Bear]

14. Some things you just shouldn't joke about...

but maybe I'm just too 'woke.'

[speak easy]

15. Charges won't stick.

Willis did not make a request for emergency service assistance.

Her daughter did, but that was not unlawful.
And Willis did not request that either.