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During early February, Roy and Val Worthington decided to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary by throwing a special Wild West themed party in Leicestershire, however, party goers were left stunned when police stormed into the couple’s celebrations with guns.
Val and Roy’s silver wedding guests were all dressed up for the Wild West hoedown in Castle Donnington and the majority of men had turned up dressed as cowboys with plastic rifles and guns.
However, one particular guest decided to go for a wander down the street and was spotted by an alarmed resident who saw the plastic rifle over the guests shoulder and mistook it for a real weapon. Police and helicopters were immediately called in to stop the man from making a getaway, at which point Mr and Mrs Worthington and their gun slinging guests found themselves surrounded by police.
The Guardian interviewed Mrs Worthington who stated; “We’d just come out of the church after renewing our vows and my husband said ‘I bought you a helicopter’ as a joke, because there was this one overhead, but when we got to the bottom of the road there were all these police cars stopped outside. There was an armed police unit and a police dog.”
A surprised Mrs Worthington said to the newspaper that she had already contacted the local police force in November 2008 to warn them that there would be cowboy and Indian guests with toy weapons who would be attending the celebrations.
A few extras:She added “I suppose they were right to have responded but it was a little bit over the top.”
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