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Just when you thought 2021 couldn't get any weirder, Michael Myers was arrested on a beach in Galveston, Texas.
Of course, it wasn't actually the killer from the Halloween movies. It was Galveston lawyer Mark Metzger pulling a prank on Monday, September 13, that ended when someone called the cops on him.
"It felt like a scene out of Scooby-Doo after they handcuffed me and pulled the mask off, like, 'I would have gotten away with it if wasn't for those meddling Karens,' you know?" he told KTRK.
Metzger dressed up as Myers and took a stroll on the beach bring "a little bit of positivity in the gloomy doom" of Tropical Storm Nicholas.
While some people found his prank funny and stopped to take photos with him, not everyone was in on the joke.
"I just don't think they appreciate it that much. I guess there's some people out there that don't have a sense of humor or, you know, can't please them all," he said.
Someone called 911 to report a masked man on the beach with a bloody knife. Police found Metzger, handcuffed him, and quickly realized that the knife was fake. The police cited him for disorderly conduct and released, the Galveston County Daily News reported.
Metzger wrote on Facebook that he was "still fuzzy" about how his actions were illegal, but he admitted that he'd do it again.
"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," Metzger wrote.