Game over

It’s rare that, when you accidentally dial the wrong number in the middle of the night and declare yourself a killer, you’ll happen upon someone who has the good sense to accept your apology for disturbing them, then roll over and go back to sleep. More likely, as happened to Thomas Ballard, you’ll get one of those people who like to involve themselves in other people’s businness. So when the woman Ballard mistakenly called heard him holler, “I have killed them all!” she promptly checked her caller ID and called the police.

Fortunately for 29-year-old Ballard, the fresh dead he was referencing were the no-right-to-life enemies in the video game he was playing. So thrilled was he in his accomplishment, he attempted to call a friend to boast. Unfortunately, while police were checking into that claim, they stumbled upon a five-year-old warrant for Ballard’s arrest. Apparently Ballard was a no-show to his hearing on cocaine possession charges in Baton Rouge a half-decade earlier. He was immediately taken into custody. Delhi police plan to send Ballard to Baton Rouge to face the boss fight he’d been avoiding.

by Scott Saxon