By the end of the movie Carrie, Stephen King's character is covered with blood in a terrible prank. That's when she...cuts loose.
It's an iconic scene in American film and it makes for a pretty good costume. So, for Halloween, Sidney Wolfe of Ohio put on a white prom dress and covered herself with fake blood. Then, driving home from a Halloween party, she hit a deer and wrecked her car.
Wolfe has the presence of mind to realize that her appearance might distress first responders. NBC News reports:
She said she warned a 911 dispatcher that when police and medics arrived, she would look more mangled than she actually was. "I said to the responder that I am in full Halloween makeup and don't want them to be frightened," she said.
But the memo wasn't relayed.
Indeed not.
Wolfe wrote in a now-viral tweet that "everyone who was a first responder thought I was dead," adding an apology in all caps.
She said an additional officer who showed up later while she was "making conversation with people" came over to the group imploring, "I hate to interrupt but don’t you guys think she needs medical assistance?”
-via Dave Barry