Daylight Savings Time Puts 15-Year-Old in Jail
PassablyNews.com reports on Hempfield Area High School’s investigation of a bomb threat worthy of the Keystone Kops. They had the time, date, and phone number of the bomb threat, called in to the student hotline. Follow it back, and you have Cody Webb, a 15-year-old student, who was arrested and put in a juvenile detention center.
The call was made on March 11 in the wee hours of the morning. The school forgot about Daylight Savings Time until they figured it out twelve days later, after which Cody was released and charges were dropped.
On March 20, a few days before Cody’s release, the school established a new policy that blocks incoming calls that don’t have caller ID information. Good thinking, Hempfield Area! Once those people that want to bomb your school realize they can’t call in the threat anonymously, they’ll be forced to either call in and identify themselves or give up on bombing you altogether.
This may not be a case of zero tolerance, but as tipster Henry Cate said in his email to me on this subject, it’s a pretty classic case of zero intelligence.
…wow.
That’s remarkably stupid.