On Saturday, the people coming up to Jeffersonville's firefighters at the Save the Fieldhouse Craft Bazaar weren't grimly bringing up the opioid crisis or devastating fires. Instead, they were smiling and laughing with the city employees.
The cause of their joy, said fire Sgt. Justin Ames, was a lighthearted prank war between Jeffersonville's fire and police departments that started the Tuesday before and soon became a local sensation.
“It's been great,” Ames said. “It really has. And it really wasn't meant to be what it became, which is what we love most about it.”
It all began when Ames decided to test out the drone his department recently acquired. An employee asked if it could carry anything.
Fire Chief Eric Hedrick joined in: Maybe a doughnut, he joked.