You know how some little-little kids playing hide & seek might do the whole cover-their-eyes thing under the theory of “If I can’t see you, you can’t see me,” but that’s not exactly how it works?
Well . . . this isn’t really anything like that but anyway — Meanwhile in Maine . . .
A guy was pretty late on paying his rent, so when his landlord showed up to collect and came into the apartment, Ted (28) the tenant played dead.
Dude. Straight. Up. Pretended. To. Be. DEAD!!!
Ted was pretty convincing apparently, too, because the landlord called the police to report a body.
Seriously, what was the plan here? Did Ted really think the landlord would just be like, “Oh golly gee whizz. Guess he doesn’t owe me rent anymore since he’s dead. Guess I’ll just leave.”
Police show up, and find Ted pretty alive — you know, responsive, healthy — so Ted admitted to the whole scheme.
. . . But wait, there’s more!
Turns out our buddy Ted had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear for a criminal threatening charges, and was arrested.
