Things to Not Do as a Cop: Get Drunk, Bring Gun to Haunted House

Things never usually end well when you mix alcohol and weapons. Such is the case for Sgt. Eric Janik, a Baltimore police officer who got scared and allegedly pulled his service weapon on a haunted house employee dressed as Leatherface over the weekend, and is now suspended without pay and probably going to get canned.

House of Screams employee Michael Morrison said he was doing his normal Leatherface routine to get “one last scream” and ran out the back of the haunted house after Janik with a chainsaw — which had no chain and was harmless — which apparently scared the piss out of Janik, so he then allegedly pulled a gun and pointed it at Leatherface Morrison’s chest.

Morrison, other witnesses and police have said that Janik appeared intoxicated, which will likely cause a shitstorm to rain down on him. My best guess says that had he been sober, Janik likely would have been able to chalk it all up to muscle memory from police training, faced a small suspension and a lifetime of razzing from his cop buddies, but drinking while armed is one of the easiest ways to get you kicked off the force.

But now I’m wondering if The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would have ever happened had Sally Hardesty been packing heat.

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