Fake Arrest Leads to Marriage Proposal [VIDEO]

Last September, a guy named Matt from New London, New Hampshire got the town's police chief to pull him over and pretend to arrest him in front of his girlfriend Samantha, then told her it was just a joke and proposed.

Apparently Matt and Samantha met a few years ago when they were freshmen in college, went to a party and got arrested by the same cop for underage drinking.  Does anyone else find this stupid?  I just don't see the romance behind this at all?