A mischievous Wisconsin resident sparked pandemonium in his quiet Muskego neighborhood and triggered a police response last month when he donned a full-body panda suit while dog-sitting for a friend.
The bizarre incident took place on February 22, when the Muskego Police Department said a call came in just before 11.40am reporting ‘a panda bear’ at the front door of a nearby home, which the caller was said to have found ‘suspicious, as panda bears are not native to Wisconsin’.
According to a police blotter entry from that day, officers responded to the S7700 block of Prospect Drive and made contact ‘with the 48 year old panda bear (a Muskego resident in costume)’.
Wisconsin panda: A married dad-of-three from Wisconsin caused pandemonium last month by dressing up as a panda to play a prank on his neighbor
Who let the dogs out? The 48-year-old prankster was asked by a neighbor to let her dogs out of her house while she was at work, which he decided to do while wearing the panda getup for a laugh
'It's a big teddy bear': The sight of a person in a panda costume led another neighbor to call 911 and tell the dispatcher that there was a 'big teddy bear' on the loose
The disguised culprit told the responding officers that he put on the black-and-white Halloween costume to prank the owners of the home who had video surveillance on their front door.
‘I like your style, sir!’ the author of the police blotter wryly remarked.
Officers contacted the homeowners ‘who verified the panda was allowed at the residence’. No charges have been filed.
The wise-cracking police department last week released the 911 call reporting the suspicious panda bear walking outside a neighboring home in the snow, according to CBS58.
The emergency dispatcher asks the caller: 'Do you have a description of the person?'
The caller replies with a laugh: 'It's a big teddy bear.'
Cracking up: Molly Salnetine (left), the neighbor who had asked her friend to let her dogs out, breaks down laughing while posing with the panda prankster
Salentine and her husband were good sports about the whole incident and posed for another picture with their mischievous neighbor
'It's a big what, I'm sorry?' the 911 dispatcher asks.
'Teddy bear.....Honest to God,' the caller confirms.
'Somebody dressed as a teddy bear?' the 911 center operator inquires.
'Yep,' says the caller.
Molly Salentine, the homeowner who was the intended target of the prank, told CBS58 in an interview that on February 22, she was working late and asked her neighbor to let her dogs out of her house in her absence.
In a phone interview with DailyMail.com on Monday afternoon, the man behind the mask, Rhommer Varilla, said he and Salentine are good friends and have been known to play pranks on one another.
‘My goal was to get caught on their video,’ he explained. ‘I’m sure that they would have laughed, but they would have been surprised.’
Not his first rodeo: In 2012, the Wisconsin dad posted a video on YouTube in which he is seen dancing in the panda suit outside his children's school
On another occasion, he disguised himself in the same costume and went to pick up his daughter, who loves pandas, at the bus stop (pictured above in the 2012 video)
Varilla, who is a Columbia Business School-educated technology consultant with a wife and three children, added that he was inspired by his life mantra: making ordinary extraordinary.
The 48-year-old Muskego resident also recounted the moment he turned a corner after wrapping up his prank and was confronted by five police cruisers - an experience he described as 'pretty tense.'
After questioning Varilla at the scene for about 15 minutes and getting his neighbors on the phone, the officers let him go.
'They took the situation very seriously,' said Varilla of the responding cops.
As soon as he reutnred home, Varilla messaged his friend on Facebook to tell her of his ordeal.
No laughing matter: The man behind the mask is Rhommer Varilla (left), a Columbia Business School-educated tech consultant with a wife and three children
‘She thought I was kidding,’ the man said of Salentine with a laugh.
When later she discovered that Varilla did, in fact, dress up as a panda and had police called on him, she got in on the joke.
Salentine posted a photo on her Facebook page, in which she is depicted happily posing up with the fake panda.
In the comments section, Varilla shared a selfie that shows him standing in front of two uniformed police officers who had responded to the 'teddy bear' 911 call. The cops' faces in the image are obscured with cartoon panda heads.
The panda-loving dad also shared another image depicting a serious-looking cartoon panda with the hashtag #pandasmatter on his own Facebook page.
It was not the first time that Varilla has donned the panda outfit for a laugh.
In 2012, he posted a video on YouTube, in which he is seen dancing in the panda suit outside his children's school.
Varilla revealed to DailyMail.com that he sometimes shows up at the bus station to pick up his daughter from school dressed as panda, while his friend and neighbor Molly Salentine dons a banana costume.
Asked if he is plans to use the $125 panda getup again to spread some cheer, Varilla replied: ‘I’m gonna use it as often as I can. I’m gonna get my money’s worth.'
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