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Man Fakes Death to Get Out of His Own Wedding, Is Busted for Not Thinking It Through – Video

Tucker Blandford had the worst case of cold feet, turned coward

Aug 20, 2014 08:06 GMT  ·  By
Alex and Tucker should have been married this month, but he chose to fake his own death to avoid the wedding
   Alex and Tucker should have been married this month, but he chose to fake his own death to avoid the wedding

There’s cold feet and then there’s really cold feet. Tucker Blandford, a 23-year-old young man who was supposed to be married on August 15, had a severe case of the latter. In fact, he got so spooked at the idea that he would be married that he faked his own death to get out of the relationship.

This is perhaps the most coward way of breaking up with someone, even more so than ending a relationship by text and / or message on social media. Changing the relationship status on Facebook without as much as a word also falls in this category.

As the video report embedded below confirms, Tucker and Alex Lanchester met in August 2012 at a college in Connecticut, where she was studying on a 1-year scholarship. Alex is from the UK, and when the time came for her to return home, at the airport, Tucker got down on one knee and popped the question.

She said yes and went home happy, and as most girls tend to be, eager to start planning her dream wedding.

Tucker, on the other hand, might have started having second thoughts about the wedding the moment he was alone again, but instead of talking to Alex about it and owning up his insecurities, he waited until the last moment to drop a bomb on her.

So, after she spent over $1,000 (€752) on wedding invitations, a photographer, and the dress, and after he booked a venue in Connecticut, he called her home and pretended to be his father. He told her that Tucker had been depressed for some time, and in a desperate gesture, had taken his own life by throwing himself in front of a car.

Unfortunately, he didn’t think it through because he never imagined that Alex would call the woman who was to become her mother-in-law to offer her condolences, which is what she did – and was shocked to find out that Tucker was alive and well, and not even in the slightest depressed.

Alex says that, in retrospect, she’s happy she didn’t get to marry a man like Tucker, a man who doesn’t have the courage to end a relationship properly and has to resort to such stupid tricks to do it.

He’s sorry he was a coward but, we assume, he’s also happy he’s a free man again. “I'm a terrible, awful person. I know I shouldn't have told her I was dead, but I didn't know what else to do. Alex is an amazing girl, but I got scared and wanted to get out of the relationship,” he said in a statement.