Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Slashdot | Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

Slashdot | Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days '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.''
Say what? Where's Hempstead Area? What jail?

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