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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.'"
that would piss me off enough to call in a bomb threat...
These kinds of things (referring to the shootings at VT) happen in a free society. And that's that unless we all want to live in a police state.
Ye gods, what an idiotic thing to say. No these things happen in a society where 1. Guns are more or less freely available and 2. Nobody, least of all the state, cares about the ones that are weak. Because whatever else one can say about this incident, it would most likely not have happened if it wasn't so incredibly easy to get a gun; and if society actually took care of the ones that were in danger of going out on a tangent. Most people who commit this kind of actions are desperate (as opposed to eg. psychopaths, who tend to kill with cold premeditation) - they may be psychically ill, they may have lost everything. If society took care of these people, they would most likely not get as far out as this.
Compare to most European countries - we have next to no murders compared to the US, because guns are not easily available and society at least tries to take care of the weak
Dude, that's a 12 days overnight. The parents thought he was guilty before thinking he was innocent. The police didn't ask any question about the judgement. No one ever thought the boy was not guilty. If that doesn't fit nazi, come again. Modded you down as flamebait.