Going to the emergency room is never pleasant, but if you're hoping for faster service, setting off a flare gun is probably not the best idea, as one man in Prince George's discovered.
Prince George's County police say a Capitol Heights man and his wife apparently went to the Prince George's Hospital Center Sunday evening and began arguing with staff members.
Police spokesman Officer Henry Tippett says the man pulled out a flare gun and shot it "up in the air toward the ceiling." According to Tippett, no one was hurt and the man fled.
Tippett says the man's wife told officers that her husband had a history of mental instability.
He added that the man was arrested Monday at a District Heights gas station. Tippett did not know if the man had been charged and declined to identify him.
Police did not say why the man and his wife had gone to the emergency room.
