Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

Jherek Carnelian writes "Cody Webb was jailed for calling in a bomb threat to his Hempstead Area high school (near Pittsburgh). He spent 12 days in lockup until the authorities realized that their caller-id log was off an hour because of the new Daylight Savings Time rules and that Cody had only called one hour prior to the actual bomb threat. Perhaps it took so long because of the principal's Catch-22 attitude about Cody's guilt — she said, 'Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'"

Comments

Guilty until proven innocent has CONSEQUENCES

[redelm]

... just look at France (where guilty is the rule). People because very mistrustful of authorities and evade them and laws as much as possible. A lot of potentially productive activity is stillborne by fear [prior restraint].

This is a clear case of police malfeasance, however accidental, there was serious harm. Police are in the business of making people pay for their mistakes and harm to others. Will they accept their own? Or evade it? Criminals prey upon civilians. Police prey upon criminals. What should happen when police reach too far down the food-chain?

Ideally, the police chief admits wrongdoing and reaches some financial settlement, min 10 k$. If this _doesn't_ happen, the police have loudly shouted they're nothing but bullies and will attack whomever they wish.

wow, jail him again, else he will sht 42 in future

[slmdmd]

Wrongful punishment has screwed his brain, so he is unfit to live in the society of peace loving principals. jail him again to prevent future 42 sh00ting + the pricipal.

Re:Nice

[xero314]

Yeah, well, that's what happens when you work for Wal-Mart. You get no health care insurance, and just enough money to pay for rent and food. Selfish parents, spending that money on food. Selfish parents, having children when they aren't capable of caring for them.

Re:YRO??!!

[crabpeople]

Ah yes I'll just deploy some aftermarket non vendor supplied patch from some random website to all the workstations in my organization. Why didn't I think of that??