A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Akron in the U.S. state of Ohio, who said he was upset with mask mandates, thought he was calling a bomb threat into Canadian authorities.

Instead, he reached police in Ottawa, Ohio, approximately 600 miles (965 kilometers) away from where he initially intended on calling.

The Putnam County emergency dispatch center received a phone call Feb. 7 from a man claiming that he was about to detonate a bomb in Ottawa near the “Overbrook” community.

The caller told dispatchers that the reason for the threat was “because of mask mandates from the government and that politicians and police officers would die because of the dumb mandates.”

During the call, law enforcement contacted the phone companies and traced the number back to a T-Mobile user in Akron.

A short time later, the same man called the center again. He claimed using a fake name this time that he was shot and needed help near an address in Ottawa, Canada.

The dispatcher told the caller that he would forward the information onto authorities in Canada because he was calling Ottawa emergency services in Putnam County, Ohio.

Deputies said the man then realized he was calling the wrong Ottawa, admitting that he was calling in a fake report because he was “bored” and “that Canada was pissing him off with their mask mandates.”

The caller said he found the number on Google and was only trying to waste “Canada’s time and resources” before he hung up.

When the police reached him again on the phone, he reiterated to investigators that he meant to call Canada and not Ohio, deeming it “an honest mistake.”

(SD-Agencies)