ARRESTED ARKANSAS MAN FAKES FAINTING SPELL

An Arkansas man stopped in a stolen car tried to fool police by faking a fainting spell as he was being arrested. The Alexandria Police Department found 40-year-old Jerome McConnell in the driver’s seat of a car that had been reported stolen. When officers told McConnell that he was being arrested, he appeared to pass out in the back of the police car. Emergency medical personnel responded, and said McConnell’s vital statistics were good even though he pretended to be passed out. He was taken to a local hospital where medical personnel concluded that McConnell was faking unconsciousness. Still, McConnell appeared to pass out again and slide out of a wheelchair as he was being transported back to the police car. Officers had to carry him to the car, where he perked up on the drive to jail and admitted that he had been awake and alert throughout the previous few hours.
* Now THAT, you youngsters, is how you commit to a part.
* “Oh, my, Ah do believe Ah have a case of the vapors! Get me to mah faintin’ couch!”
* So if you fall asleep, police go away and leave you alone?
* Maybe his plan was – “You’re saying I stole this car? It must be the Ambien!”
* He was charged with car theft, and misdemeanor wooziness.