Anyways, read about the unfortunate incident here...and maybe chuckle a little:
In his church office cluttered with bags of candy, pictures of his cherubic children and Very Berry hand lotion, it’s hard to imagine pastor Rob Knight as an armed and dangerous criminal.
But that’s what Cobourg police feared they might be confronting when they surrounded his family minivan — child seats and all — during a dramatic “takedown” on Wednesday afternoon.
“It was all a misunderstanding,” a sheepish Knight, youth pastor at Cobourg Alliance Church, says as he recalls the incident on the city’s busiest downtown street. “The funny thing is there was maybe only two minutes when anyone could have seen the guns.”
Unbeknownst to the passerby who called police, the “guns” were harmless props in a video that Knight, 34, was filming with three Grade 10 students in a covered walkway just off King St.
The video, which he’ll be showing at a Good Friday youth rally in Scarborough, is a “modern day analogy of the sacrifice Jesus made for mankind.”
The storyline: two brothers meet in an alley, one of them an armed robber in a balaclava who’s held up a liquor store, the other a martyr who takes his place by assuming his guilt. They represent mankind and Jesus Christ respectively. The third character is a police officer who’s arresting the bad guy.
Several people walked by unconcerned as Knight and the teen actors “were all laughing between takes,” he says. “I wouldn’t have thought that it looked at all like a crime scene.”
Police apparently thought otherwise as they surrounded the minivan at the end of the shoot.
