Capecodonline.com – Two men were arrested Thursday evening after unsuccessfully trying to videotape a prank that entailed knocking on a stranger’s door and springing from a large box in a scary clown mask.

At about 5:50 p.m. Thursday, an off-duty Barnstable police officer on a small street off Shootflying Hill Road saw Nicholas Court, 25, and Jonathan Gebbia, 21, run through his backyard and over to his neighbor’s house, Sgt. Sean Sweeney said.

Court, of Dennis Port, was dressed in all black and wearing a “freaky clown mask” with blood and scars, Sweeney said, leading the off-duty officer to call police to report that the two appeared to be preparing to break into his neighbor’s house.

Court, carrying a large box, stepped onto the neighbor’s front porch while Gebbia, of Hyannis, hid in the bushes with a video camera, Sweeney said. The off-duty officer ran over to intervene before the 34-year-old woman inside the house answered the door, Sweeney said.

Court and Gebbia told the off-duty officer that they did not know the residents of the house.

“They explained they were going to put it on YouTube. The woman had never seen the people before. It was a strictly random pick,” Sweeney said.

Court and Gebbia were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing on land, Sweeney said.

At the police station, Sgt. Dave Myette noted that an elderly person could have answered the door and had a heart attack. The two said they had not considered that possibility.

Court and Gebbia were scheduled to be arraigned this morning in Barnstable District Court. Police seized the video camera, Sweeney said.

Is it a dick move to pull this prank on random people instead of ones you know? Sure, but it also has a chance to be really funny. It’s basically a risk/reward type thing that polices itself. You might get internet gold, like some hilarious sassy black chick who loses her shit and freaks out so bad her extensions fall out, or you might get an ex marine who kicks the shit out of you. These are the risks you take when trying to make a viral prank video.

This is definitely one of those “sign of the times” situations. I’m 99% sure these two don’t get arrested for this 20 years ago. We just live in so much fear these days that we lock people up for jokes and seize their video cameras. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were charged with being terrorists. Nantucket should probably sound their air raid sirens. Everyone lock your doors and grab your transistor radios! Close the bridges, there’s crazy clowns on the loose! Hide the children and elderly! Oh the humanity!

The bottom line is that prank videos are kinda dumb and anyone who does them deserves whatever repercussions they get. In fact I openly root for them to get their asses kicked, but do they belong in jail? I’m not so sure of that.

P.S. How many old people die of prank induced heart attacks per year? Negative infinity?

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Globe – The death of a man in Falmouth Thursday night is under investigation by Falmouth police and Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe.

The man, who died from some sort of a cut wound, was injured some time between 9 and 10 p.m. Thursday night near Shore Street in the Cape Cod town, O’Keefe said

Police are looking into several locations with search warrants, O’Keefe said. But he declined to be more specific.

That’s two in less than two months. Let’s slow down on the dead bodies Falmouth.

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wcvb.com – The father of one of the two kayakers whose boats were overturned by a great white shark said the women paddled out hoping to see it.

A pleasant trip by two Massachusetts kayakers to check out some cute seals turned terrifying as the pair encountered a great white shark.

Randy Parker told the Old Colony Memorial newspaper that he expected the young women would recover fully, but that initially they were understandably traumatized.

He said he didn’t fault the two for their adventurousness, and acknowledged that they had paddled out to the rocks along Stage Point in Plymouth in the hope of seeing a great white shark.

“They heard from our neighbor that a great white had consumed a seal in one gulp in that area,” Parker said. “So they decided to head out on the chance they could get a good look at one.”

With a camera attached to Kristin’s kayak, the two women paddled 10 minutes from the Parkers’ home on Manomet Beach to an area off Stage Point.

This is unreal. We had a bunch of people telling us how mean we were after our post where we gave these girls shit for kayaking with the seals. The number one reason people said we should feel bad for them is that there aren’t usually sharks in that area so they couldn’t have known not to kayak near seals. Well once again, we were right, they should have known… and did.

Not only did they know  there were sharks around, but they heard that a Great White Shark had EATEN A SEAL earlier in the day and they set out to intentionally look for it and take pictures. You have got to be shitting me. How can you possibly feel bad for these girls after hearing this? They are the luckiest people on planet earth.

I’m sorry, but if you know there is a Great White Shark that has been feeding in the area, and you purposely kayak into the middle of a seal colony and splash around, you give up all rights to any sympathy when the shark tries to eat your ass. If you heard there was a serial killer at 7-11 would you strap on the GoPro and go get a Slurpee?

I was hesitant before, but now that this information has come to light, I think it’s officially time to give these two a Darwin Award. Congratulations ladies.

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Barrier now up at Nauset beach spit to prevent vehicles from crossing into eastham! @capecodtimes #capecod pic.twitter.com/3qMW4sE3MM

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This has been an ongoing feud between Eastham and Orleans. Apparently erosion and sand shifts have moved half of Nauset spit into Eastham which doesn’t allow over sand vehicle permits. The problem is that it used to be entirely in Orleans, which does allow driving on the beach. This didn’t happen overnight either, it’s been a long time but for some reason Eastham decided to enforce their bylaw now. So basically, people that have been driving on the spit their entire lives can no longer use the entire beach.

Orleans is not rolling over though, they are preparing to fight this battle in court. This should be an interesting one to watch. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a fight between an actual town and The Fun Police of another town unfold in real time. I promise you this, we will keep you informed on this one, buckle up and grab your internet driving permit, it may get a little bumpy soon.

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I first met Will Dailey when we interviewed him at the New England Music Awards. He could not have been nicer to us that night and we left vowing to have him here on the Cape this summer one way or another. He came to play The Beach House in July, and by the time The Real Cape Music Festival was over he was an honorary Cape Codder.

His new album National Throat is shooting up the charts, and deservedly so. Will left a major label to do this the way he wanted to do it and the album reflects that authenticity. In short, he is about as real as it gets.

The album is available on iTunes and it does not disappoint. Let’s support a guy who supports Cape Cod and see if we can’t get our adopted son a little higher on that chart shall we?

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Capecodonline.com – An East Falmouth woman is facing criminal charges after authorities allege she hid drugs in her rectum while in custody at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility.

Kristin A. Sullivan, 28, was arraigned Tuesday in Falmouth District Court on nine counts: three each of delivering drugs to a prisoner, distributing a Class E controlled substance and possession to distribute a Class E substance.

According to court records, on Aug. 5, while Sullivan was being held on charges from Falmouth and Wareham district courts, jail authorities received a tip that she was giving prescription medicines to other inmates and was hiding the drugs in a body cavity. Jail personnel questioned Sullivan, and she admitted to tucking a small container containing pills in her rectum, records say. An X-ray confirmed it, and the container was removed by medical personnel at Falmouth Hospital, according to records.

Authorities found six intact pills in the container and one-quarter of a larger pill, records say. Among the medications were clonazepam, a muscle relaxant, and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant used to treat attention deficit disorder.

Ooh, it’s a good old fashioned drug smuggling competition!

Remember a while back when we wrote about the girl at Barnstable County with the drugs in her vagina? Well it looks like we’ve got a contender for the crown. Unfortunately I don’t think this girl has what it takes to dethrone the champ though. When we break down the battle we realize it wasn’t even close…

Drug choice: Vagina Girl had 18 bags of cocaine and heroin in her… um, cavity. Ass Girl only had some muscle relaxers and some kind of generic Adderall type ADD medication up her butt. Think about this for a second, who wants to be able to pay better attention in jail? ADD meds are for focus and getting shit done, do people in jail take them and then do nothing all day in an extremely efficient manner?

Location choice: Gotta give this one to Vagina Girl as well. Not only is there more room for storage in a vagina, a girl can easily go a few days without using it (especially in jail). Try to go a few days without using your ass and there’s gonna be trouble.

All in all, not a bad effort from Ass Girl, but it’s going to take a once in a lifetime performance to beat Vagina Girl.

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The Inkwell, Oak Bluffs circa 1973. These people have more cool in their pinky toes than the entire Cape in 2014. Where’s that time machine?

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