Tag: BOMBTHREAT

Only a fool in this era of high-level security would fake a bomb threat, let alone Tweet about it, but that's pretty much what Paul Chambers did last week via Twitter. The Inquirer reports that the 26-year-old UK native was set to the fly to Ireland from the Robin Hood airport in Finningley, South Yorkshire until he realized the airport was closed because of snow. Obviously frustrated -- and ...

A 16-year-old North Carolina boy, known by his Internet handle "Tyrone," made the rounds of Digg, Drudge, and the rest of the blogosphere after he was arrested for calling in a series of bomb threats to schools. A fury erupted over allegations that Tyrone was being held without charges under the Patriot Act, which of course turned out to be completely false. ...