From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:4624055e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Yet another DST  lawsuit brewing.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/daylight_saving_error/
> A Pennsylvania student was held in jail for 12 days after a bomb threat
> recorded by a school hot line service was wrongly attributed to him, Fox
> News reports.
>
> Fifteen-year-old Cody Webb, of Greensburg, "called a school district hot
> line to listen to a recorded message about school delays at 3:12am EDT on
> 11 March", his mobile phone records later revealed. The next morning,
> school officials discovered said bomb threat logged at 3:17am.
>
> The powers that be therefore concluded that "Webb had made the threat
> because they also found a record of his phone call", the lad's attorney
> Tim Andrews explained. The school's principal confirmed his guilt by
> asking Webb for his cell phone number later that morning and then quickly
> declared: "We got him. We got him."
> Webb refused to confess, was arrested "on a felony charge of threatening
> to use a weapon of mass destruction and related misdemeanor counts" and
> thrown into Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Centre for 12 days
> until the truth was revealed.
>
> In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which
> continued to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to
> spot that the bomb threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an
> hour after Webb's innocent call.
>
> Andrews explained: "The district attorney subpoenaed the cell phone
> records, and it didn't take more than a minute to see the times didn't
> match."
>
> Webb was finally released "when a state trooper failed to show up at
> another hearing". The charges were dropped on 27 March.
>
>

The school has acted to make sure it won't get any more blocked calls

http://www.hempfieldarea.k12.pa.us/mainnews.asp?lngindex=18

The Hempfield Area School District will no longer accept calls from phone
numbers that have been blocked. If you have a blocked telephone number, you
must remove this feature before placing the phone call to any of the school
district buildings.

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