{"id":5390,"date":"2011-08-03T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:12:36","slug":"idaho-state-journal-man-in-bunny-suit-and-tutu-told-to-stop-scaring-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/idaho-state-journal-man-in-bunny-suit-and-tutu-told-to-stop-scaring-children","title":{"rendered":"Idaho State Journal: Man in bunny suit and tutu told to stop scaring children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Idaho Falls police have a warned a 34-year-old man\u00a0in a bunny suit\u00a0wearing a\u00a0tutu to stop hiding behind trees to frighten local children.<\/p>\n

Idaho Falls resident William Falkingham allegedly was peeking out from behind a large tree and pointing his finger like a gun — scaring a little boy, whose mother filed a complaint.<\/p>\n

An investigation led officers to question other neighbors, “who expressed that they were greatly disturbed by Falkingham and his bunny suit,” the official police\u00a0report said.<\/p>\n

Falkingham told police that while he “enjoys wearing the suit,” he understood the concerns, and that he could be cited as a public nuisance for that type of behavior, Idaho Falls Police Department spokeswoman Joelyn Hansen said.<\/p>\n

According to the British news service Reuters — which picked up the story — a neighbor, Deborah Colson, defended Falkingham, saying he has an eccentric but otherwise harmless habit of dressing up and making appearances on his own property.<\/p>\n

According to the wire service:<\/p>\n

“He’s got the bunny outfit, a cowboy suit and a ballerina dress but you don’t see him except where he’s tripping through his backyard,” she said.<\/p>\n

Colson said she worried that news of Falkingham’s at-home habits might make him a target of fear and scorn.<\/p>\n

“He’s never done anything wrong but wear his little suits in the background,” she said. “He’s got a strange lifestyle at home but we all do weird things at home. It makes me so sad: people don’t even do anything and they get laughed at.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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