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Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

Posted by Zonk on from the yeah-that's-a-woops dept.

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.'"

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  1. Hot news from Virginia Tech by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Penury of Iraqis

    People advised to kill obese idiot students instead...

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  2. YRO??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Uhh..what does this story have to do with my rights online?

  3. Look at the bright side.. by zyl0x · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least we all saved a bunch of money on our energy bills!

    Oh wait...

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  4. Slashdot Effect.. by Heem · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget to visit the School District's website, you know.. for background information and such.

    http://www.hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us/

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