Worst-ever April Fools' prank locks down neighborhood

Mike Gallagher

Apr 2, 2012 - 09:40

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Worst-ever April Fools' prank locks down neighborhood

Prank call: The 20-year-old prankster with autism made a call from Virginia saying students were injured and there was a pipe at the California school

So yesterday's best April Fools' Day pranks were the harmless ones, not the kind that involved calling a police department on the other side of the country to tell them that you're shooting up a high school.

A 30-year-old Virginia man is facing felony charges after his long-distance bad idea sent three police departments, the Califoia Highway Patrol, a helicopter, paramedics, firefighters and "an Active Shooter Team" to Roseville (CA) High School in search of a shooter.

Police say the suspected prankster will foot the bill for the wasted time and resources. "It's never a good idea to prank call a police department," Roseville Sgt. Darin Defreece said. "We will find you."