US teen jailed for school's daylight-saving cock-up

[mawilson 2,133]

A Pennsylvania student was held in jail for 12 days after a bomb threat recorded

by a school hot line service was wrongly attributed to him, Fox News reports.

Fifteen-year-old Cody Webb, of Greensburg, "called a school district hot line to

listen to a recorded message about school delays at 3:12am EDT on 11 March",

his mobile phone records later revealed. The next morning, school officials

discovered said bomb threat logged at 3:17am.

The powers that be therefore concluded that "Webb had made the threat because

they also found a record of his phone call", the lad's attorney Tim Andrews explained.

The school's principal confirmed his guilt by asking Webb for his cell phone number

later that morning and then quickly declared: "We got him. We got him."

Webb refused to confess, was arrested "on a felony charge of threatening to use

a weapon of mass destruction and related misdemeanor counts" and thrown into

Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Centre for 12 days until the truth was

revealed.

In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which continued

to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to spot that the bomb

threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an hour after Webb's innocent call.

Andrews explained: "The district attorney subpoenaed the cell phone records, and

it didn't take more than a minute to see the times didn't match."

Webb was finally released "when a state trooper failed to show up at another hearing".

The charges were dropped on 27 March.

Andrews, unsuprisingly, added that "the boy's family is considering a law suit against

the school district or police for false arrest". Webb said of his ordeal: "I wasn't going

to admit to something I didn't do. Me and God know I didn't do it."

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[Amby 490]

that's BS. public school are becoming really crazy these days when it comes to rules. my sister told me that the school she goes to now has security cameras everywhere and they are making them have uniforms next school year because people are wearing those jeans with holes in them that are popular now. #######? I was in my old high school the other day to get a copy of my transcripts and the principal was walking down the hall yelling at this kid who was crying. I thought #######?

Edited April 16, 2007 by Amber&Neil

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Sue the FOCK out of that school.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Sue the FOCK out of that school.

[almaty 19]

i agree..those chopf##ks./.and get the name to the duke players so, they can sue too....