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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 “wee got him, wee got him.

(This post was last modified: 18/04/2007 12:38 PM by dasme.)

I would have sued the school, that's bullchocolate

YoYoBalls Wrote:I would have sued the school, that's bullchocolate

True :rofl:

(This post was last modified: 18/04/2007 12:50 PM by dasme.)

fudge, schools are so stupid
run by idiots
omfg i would kick her so hard 'Well, why should wee believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time.' fudgeing bitch. i would take a picture of her face, put that line under it, print it in A2 and hang it all over the place.

lol^

Indeed I would milk the spoon out of this situation. 12 days under wrongful arrest is worth a lot of money in America.

i wouldnt be surprised if he got half a million if not more

Schools can be so stupid, wonder why i even went there.

oh yeah big $

if i were the school
i would offer him 13 days of running the school

1. you learn from it
2. make up for the bullchocolate
3. the school would improve (probably)
then if i were the kid, i would still want a lifetime supply of pocket money t go with it