Take a look at this little morsel, reprinted from Passably News:
A
fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days,
wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat - because his school had
forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.
Cody
Webb was arrested last month, after Hempfield Area High School received
a bomb threat on their student hotline – which provides a range of
information to students about the school - at 3.17am on March 11th.
They believed they'd found the culprit when they traced the phone
number they thought was responsible to Webb.
Unfortunately,
the school forgot that the clocks had switched to Daylight Saving Time
that morning. The time stamps left on the hotline were adjusted by an
hour after Day Light Savings causing Webb's call to logged as the same
time the bomb threat was placed. Webb, who's never even had a detention
in his life, had actually made his call an hour before the bomb threat
was placed.
Despite the fact that the recording of the call
featured a voice that sounded nothing like Webb's, the police arrested
Webb and he spent 12 days in a juvenile detention facility before the
school eventually realised their mistake.
Webb gave an insight
into the school's impressive investigative techniques, saying that he
was ushered in to see the principal, Kathy Charlton. She asked him what
his phone number was, and , according to Webb, when he replied 'she
started waving her hands in the air and saying “we got him, we got
him.”'
'They just started flipping out, saying I made a bomb
threat to the school,' he told local television station KDKA. After he
protested his innocence, Webb says that the principal said: 'Well, why
should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.'
All charges against Webb have now been dropped.
The most amazing part of the story is the quote from the principle. Incredible. I hope his family nails her to the cross as an example.