A Texas attorney was handcuffed and issued a citation by police this week for wearing a Michael Myers costume and walking on the beach with what appeared to be a bloody knife.
Mark Metzger III was briefly detained after witnesses called the Galveston Police Department on Monday to report a strange man strolling the coastline as Tropical Storm Nicholas approached, KXAN reported.
“I did it for the people, the tourists who are stuck down here,” Metzger said, according to KXAN. “They honestly weren’t expecting a tropical storm to pop up, but they’re stuck here in their hotels… so [I] kinda thought, maybe they can get a laugh.”
But officers didn’t find the stunt funny and ticketed Metzger for disorderly conduct even though the knife and blood were later determined to be fake.
Photos posted to social media from the scene show Metzger walking along the beach in the creepy get-up with the prop knife by his side, and then on his knees as officers placed him in cuffs.
Metzger’s costume was styled after the murderous character from the 1978 slasher film “Halloween” that has gone on to become a successful franchise of a dozen films, one of which is being released in a month, just in time for the holiday.
“I think it was a ridiculous citation,” Metzger said, according to the station. “But I think their hands were tied, and I understand they had a job to do. I’m respectful of that.”
Metzger is known for staging similar pranks in the area, the station reported.
“So if taking a silly walk down the beach during a storm in a costume, and subsequently being arrested for disorderly conduct accomplished any of that … then I’d do it again all day every day,” he wrote online.
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