Funny Prank in Obituary
`O’Meara’s love of a good joke was well-known in West Hartford. Courant columnist Ken Cruickshank wrote in 1976 of a practical joke O’Meara once played on local police. O’Meara dragged a friend who had passed out from too many martinis onto a Ridgewood Road lawn, strapped a parachute to his back, and called local police, telling them “something fell out” of an airplane “and it landed on a lawn near my house.”‘
