Especially when you are taking the day off to get extremely high. Story was not the hole truth By JEFFREY SIMPSON Staff Reporter Thu. Mar 12 - 5:58 AM A Lower Sackville man’s cry for help Wednesday turned out to be a creative way of calling in sick. Halifax regional firefighters and RCMP officers spent the afternoon scouring an area around a former military radar base and an old cement plant near Beaver Bank Road after receiving a report that a man needed help. Cpl. Joe Taplin, a spokesman for the RCMP, said the man had used his cellphone to send his employer a text message about falling into a hole. His employer became concerned and called 911 at about 2 p.m. "We believed he might have been injured," Cpl. Taplin said in an interview. While crews were combing the area looking for the supposedly missing man, the RCMP traced the cellphone he’d used to an apartment on Cobequid Road in Lower Sackville. Officers found the man inside and under the influence of some kind of substance, probably an illegal one, Cpl. Taplin said. "We believe he was contacting his employer and trying to get out of work," Cpl. Taplin said. The people who’d taken part in the search weren’t impressed. "We entered into an extensive search out there and used quite a bit of resources trying to locate an individual," Cpl. Taplin said. "It was an extensive, costly use of manpower to go out there and attempt to locate an individual who wasn’t even there." The inadvertent mischief-maker wasn’t facing charges because he hadn’t made the call for help, Cpl. Taplin said. The fire service’s technical rescue team was on standby at the Beaver Bank fire station, in case someone was trapped.