A 46-year-old gay man from Warminster in Wiltshire, UK, has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after admitting to a charge of wounding another man with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Mark Pritchard was apparently having a difficult time coping with a romantic break-up. So
he showed up at his ex-boyfriend's home dressed in a bunny costume and stabbed his ex's new boyfriend several times with a knife:
Mark Pritchard arrived at the home of his former gay lover Lee Corbin in Totterdown, dressed in a theatrical animal outfit. He was holding roses and love letters. Pritchard managed to persuade his ex's new boyfriend, Martin Williams, that he was carrying a "special delivery" from Mr Corbin, who was away on holiday. After reading out a number of love letters he had written himself, Pritchard persuaded Mr Williams to blindfold himself and wait in bed for "some treasure". But Pritchard snuck up on his rival and tried to knock him out with a handkerchief covered in chloroform before starting to stab him with a knife.
There is a message in this story. It doesn't matter how convincing the stranger in the bunny costume seems. Don't let him in your house and don't let the stranger in the bunny costume trick you into lying face-down on a bed wearing nothing but a blindfold.
