Boozing Cop Pulled Gun on "Leatherface" at Haunted House, Witnesses Say

[The Straight Story]

Boozing Cop Pulled Gun on "Leatherface" at Haunted House, Witnesses Say

ESSEX, Md. (CBS/AP) Visitors of spooky haunted houses are supposed to leave terrified. But it was a chain-saw-wielding costumed employee who was left shaking when an off-duty police officer put a gun to his chest the weekend before Halloween.

Sgt. Eric Janik, a Baltimore city police officer, delivered the fright of a lifetime, pulling a gun on Mike Morrison at the end of his act, authorities said Monday.

Janik, 37, was charged with assault and reckless endangerment for pointing his service handgun at Morrison, who was dressed as Leatherface, the killer from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," Baltimore County police said.

Morrison followed Janik and several other people up a staircase Sunday night at the end of the haunted house tour in a bid to get "one last scream" out of them, police said.

When the group exited into a parking lot, Janik pulled his gun and pointed it at Morrison from less than 10 feet away, according to police and Morrison, who said he dropped the chain saw, put his hands up and backed away. The saw had no chain.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/27/crimesider/entry5424584.shtml

The real leatherface would have chopped his sorry ass to bits.