This morning at 8:00 am I had a friend deliver this document to the assistant manager at my store just as it was opening. It is a very fake, yet believable looking, notice that charges had been filed against him. 15 minutes later I had another friend call pretending to be the plaintiff's representative to set up a meeting with him.
So he's freaking out and starts looking up the charges that he "committed." The first is theft of intellectual property, such as copying a computer file without permission. The second is for misrepresentation by a retailer. Since we do computer repair at the retail store we work at both of these could be somewhat plausible... at least for a little while.
I was scheduled to work at 9:00 am and was planning on telling him it was a joke shortly after arriving. To his credit he already had figured out it wasn't real by the time I got there because he had called the courthouse and learned that the case number didn't make any sense (it is after all just the date with his initials) and that the courthouse was actually closed the day of his "hearing." However, he did not see it coming that I was the mastermind behind it all, so after a few choice words he begrudgingly admitted that it was a pretty good prank.
My thanks to Sally Woodward, Jenn Kinch, Ryan Ketcheson, Sharon Plemmons and Tia Stagg who all helped make this joke so much fun.
