Remember Ben Patterson from earlier this week? He's the California dad who chronicled the viral vomiting episode featuring his toddler, Declan, in a series of text messages sent to his wife, Stephanie.
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Now, in an interesting twist to the story, Patterson admits that he embellished one major aspect of the story — the police.
The part where he mentions officers arriving on the scene so that he could take a Breathalyzer test was a fabrication.
"I just wanted to clarify that while the rest of the story is true, the part about the police coming and the breathalyzer was just something I added for dramatic effect for my wife in the moment," Patterson wrote in a Facebook post. "Now that the story has blown up, I wouldn't want anyone to think badly of the Burlingame PD because I was joking! The truth counts. I actually went down to Burlingame PD and chatted with them and we had a good laugh about things."
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As for why his wife ignored all 21 of Patterson's texts, he said there is a good reason for that. "She was in a really loud restaurant and didn't hear her phone until they got up to leave," Patterson told Us Weekly. "As soon as she saw the messages, she called."
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