She banged on the youngsters car window with a terrified look on her face screaming: "Let me in, let me in." One of the teenagers in the car, Simon Jackson, 19, told magistrates the incident had left him and his friends petrified. "We were parked in the lay-by playing cards when we saw a woman come from down the lane," said Mr Jackson. "She got to the car and was asking us to help her saying: Let me in, let me in. She was banging on the window in terror.
"Not long after he came with an axe and was tapping on the window. Then we were scared because we thought he was going to smash through the window." He said the event had left them absolutely terrified and they drove back down the lane to Crook Road and called the police. The court was told the couple were later pulled over by officers in their car near to Windermere Golf Club. Police cautioned Miss Walton and arrested Mr Powell, who works for Hawkshead Brewery. Weeping as she gave evidence to the court, Miss Walton said the spoof attack had been her idea and a split-second decision.
She said they had wanted to scare the men who she believed regularly parked in the lay-by next to their farmland. "We've had problems with youths on the lane. We'd seen that car in the past and called police but thought this time we'd scare them ourselves," she said. "There's litter and my horse had recently been injured because of people driving across the fields. I waved to them and I was laughing, I don't understand how they didn't realise it was a joke." Presiding magistrate Mary Goldie adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports and said custody was an option.
4 comments:
You got scared, now laugh and tell the story until your future grandchildren roll their eyes and say "Granddad's telling the axe murder story AGAINNNN".
Eat some concrete and harden the feck up. Whiney dobbing and potentially putting a man in gaol (at the very least having to go through all the drama of going to court) just goes to show how soft you are.
I bet you've watched movies with scary stuff, and got over it once you left the cinema. It was acting, just because you didn't have to pay for it doesn't make it different. Don't go driving down dark country lanes if you are such sookie-lah-lahs.
Miss Liss, although I disagree with you, I can't mount an argument in the face of your delightful use of language. You have completely disarmed me, and I can't stop smiling.
"Eat some concrete and harden the feck up" and "sookie-lah-lahs" are going into my lexicon. Thank you!
The prank was reckless and showed poor judgement, but having to go to court or being locked up because of it is utterly ridiculous.
Speaking of axes in public places, a couple of years ago there was an incident at my university involving an axe. A chemistry student, apparently after becoming frustrated with the professor who refused to answer his questions about the coming exam later that day, left the classroom and came back with an axe and a piece of wood. He threatened to make a bonfire right then and there if that was what it took for him to be recognised. Even though the other students were, quite justifiably terrified, he apparently didn't threaten anyone with violence at any point.
More amazingly, the professor managed to calm the student down and finished the lecture normally(!) - the young man sat there the rest of the time with his axe and wood making no further fuss. He was collected by the police some time afterwards.
I don't know what happened to him after that, but I don't remember any news about court proceedings or prison sentence, or even expulsion from the university. Maybe they had a psycologist talk to the guy and they found out he was just another socially clueless and otherwise harmless eccentric, and universities are full of those.
That's what this story about the axe prank reminded me of and now I'm actually wondering what happened to that guy afterwards.
If they'd waited until October 31st to pull their prank, it might have been received better.
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