BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A Gage County man hoping to scare his wife by jumping in front of her moving vehicle got a scare of his own.

Gage County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Beatrice Community Hospital last Friday for a possible domestic assault. But the couple explained that the husband’s injuries occurred after he got the idea to scare his wife while he was waiting for her to pick him up from a house.

As she approached the house in her sport utility vehicle, the husband jumped from behind some trees onto the street.

The woman was unable to stop the SUV before hitting him.

The husband suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital by his wife for treatment.