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"       Guys: When proposing to the woman you love, you can always go the rose petals and candles route... or you could have your future wife arrested, make her cry, and SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF HER.   Canadian bro Ben Vienneau opted for the latter. With the help of his brother-in-law, who&amp;#039;s a cop, Ben decided against a romantic dinner or even a little personalized fortune cookie and instead opted to have girlfriend Marcia Belyea pulled over, arrested, informed that she had $2,000 in outstanding parking tickets and faced 30 days in jail.   As you can see from Ben&amp;#039;s filming of the WORST PROPOSAL EVER, a single tear of despair rolls down Marcia&amp;#039;s cheek as she sits fearfully in a cop car on the side of the road. Isn&amp;#039;t this what every little girl dreams of?!    Marcia was finally put out of her misery when the arresting officer offered her an &amp;quot;alternative&amp;quot; to jail time, saying: &amp;quot;Ben and I have come to an agreement where we&amp;#039;ve agreed to waive the fine and let you go if you take his hand in marriage.&amp;quot; Somehow she found it in her heart to smile and accept, even telling the Today show that she &amp;quot;wasn&amp;#039;t mad at all.&amp;quot; Lady&amp;#039;s a saint.   We&amp;#039;re sorry to say that prank proposals are a thing. Remember the (clearly insane) Russian businessman who faked his own death by car crash before popping the Q to his woman? And last year a Chicago pilot faked an imminent small plane crash before asking his girlfriend to marry him. Naturally, she was traumatized, saying: &amp;quot;At that moment, I genuinely thought that we were going to crash.&amp;quot;   Men of Earth, let these extreme examples serve as cautionary tales. The only tears you should make her cry during a proposal are tears of sheer joy. Getting engaged is thrilling enough\u2014no need to make her sh*t her pants before taking a knee!   Want more from Michelle? Follow her on Twitter @michelleruiz. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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