Police called to deal with fictional film robbery
05/05/2010 - 09:27:49A filmmaker is taking the blame after New York police officers were summoned to what they thought was an armed robbery, but turned out to be a location shoot for his upcoming movie.
The confrontation ended peacefully when officers ordered an actor playing a gunman to drop his weapon.
Fred Carpenter said in a telephone interview: "I was supposed to tell the local police precinct what we were doing."
Carpenter was filming inside a convenience store in Bellmore, on Long Island, east of New York City, in a scene in which a gunman takes a number of people hostage.
A passer-by apparently thought it was the real thing and called police.
Nobody was injured, but police said the outcome could have been tragic.
