WESTLAKE, Ohio -- Two men could face charges after a father tricked his sons by having a friend pose as a stranger looking to enter their house Thursday in Westlake, police said.

The 46-year-old man tried to test his 14- and 16-year-old sons to see if they might let a stranger into their house on Pineview Drive, police said.

Once inside, the friend pretended to be an ex-convict and threatened to harm the teens. The teens escaped the house through a bedroom window and called 911 from a neighbor's house, police said.

The Westlake Police Department released a recording of the 911 call on Friday. An edited version of the recording is included in this post.

Westlake stranger trick 911

The friend, a 45-year-old Cleveland Heights man, knocked on the door when the father wasn't home. The younger son let the friend in the house.

The friend then claimed the father owed him $1,500, the older son told a police dispatcher.

"He's screaming and he's like, 'if I start chopping up bodies then I'm going to be the bad guy. I just got out of jail two weeks ago,'" the older son told the dispatcher.

The frightened teens locked themselves in a bedroom. They climbed out a window onto a garage roof, then hopped to the ground and ran to a neighbor's house to call 911.

The 16-year-old scraped his knee while climbing out of the house.

Officers arrived and spoke with the friend, who was on the phone with the father. The friend wanted to admit it was a ruse but the father refused, police said.

The father refused to acknowledge the emotional effect the trick had on his sons and instead called their actions an "epic fail," police said.

A Westlake prosecutor will review the incident to determine if the father and friend will face child-endangering charges.

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