Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

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Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days 881

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @09:58AM from the yeah-that's-a-woops dept.

Jherek Carnelian writes "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.'"

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When did the RIAA... (Score:5, Funny)

by robinsonne ( 952701 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:09AM (#18766779)

"Well, why should we believe you? You're a criminal. Criminals lie all the time."

When did the RIAA go into the education business?

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Re:Egg/School Principle In Massive Collision. (Score:3, Funny)

by MikeBabcock ( 65886 ) writes: <mtb-slashdot@mikebabcock.ca> on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:12AM (#18766833) Homepage Journal

And in other news, "Zygamorph expelled for inciting violence against principal because school doesn't understand common expression, 'egg on your face' and assumed the principal was to be assaulted with actual eggs." ;-)

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Re:Wrongful impronment indeed - but who is to blam (Score:5, Funny)

by Intron ( 870560 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:13AM (#18766835)

I've eaten in the Hempstead cafeteria. They definitely have WMDs.

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I bet the video games made him do it! (Score:4, Funny)

by LoudMusic ( 199347 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:21AM (#18766983)

Can we please blame this on video games? Maybe the educator assumed that since he played video games he was a bad kid.

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Damn, we coulda got a gold medal for sure... (Score:5, Funny)

by Two99Point80 ( 542678 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:22AM (#18767007) Homepage

...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.

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Re:When did the RIAA... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:30AM (#18767137)

Here's one to fire back at the principal:
"Well, you say you are straight, but why should we believe you? You're a homosexual. Homosexuals lie about their sexual orientation all the time."

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Re:Damn, we coulda got a gold medal for sure... (Score:3, Funny)

by rarel ( 697734 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:41AM (#18767329) Homepage

Must be on the way, I heard someone created a special mat just for that!

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Re:Give the Students More Credit (Score:4, Funny)

by virtual_mps ( 62997 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:48AM (#18767445)

I know it's not really the point of your story, but in case it comes up again, the main reason that most of our buildings are generally rectangular is because it's much easier(read: cheaper) to build them that way.
And because efficiently fitting square furniture into a round room is a bitch.

Before anyone suggests making the furniture round, consider that you'd need custom furniture for every size of room.

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Re:I have raised a child, two actually (Score:3, Funny)

by Rob T Firefly ( 844560 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:50AM (#18767461) Homepage Journal

Not everyone figures this out, and many people lie about small things ("Yes, honey, that dress looks great.").

I'm your wife, you insensitive clod!!!

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Re:Can you say... (Score:5, Funny)

by John Straffin ( 902430 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @10:56AM (#18767541)

We homeschool too, but I hope I never have to deal with a student calling in a bomb threat!

"Hello... yes, this is he... you've done what?"
(covers telephone mouthpiece)
"Honey? Have you seen the kids this morning?!?"

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Re:Give the principal a break (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:09PM (#18768267)

Minors have no civil rights.

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Re:Feel free to check out her website: (Score:5, Funny)

by HTH NE1 ( 675604 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:17PM (#18768399)

Judging from her markup, she certainly believes in using <strong> words.

I'll assume the second <HTML> section for the footer is due to using Microsoft FrontPage 5.0.

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Re:Give the principal a break (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:28PM (#18768589)

"Hello, USA? Hi, this is Iran. Umm, we were just wondering, why are you bombing us?
"Oh, like you don't know!"

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Re:Give the Students More Credit (Score:5, Funny)

by AK Marc ( 707885 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:34PM (#18768719)

eh, for rooms larger than a few meters across the walls will be approximately flat.

Your remote will find that "approximate" rounding error and fall behind the couch every time.

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Re:Can you say... (Score:2, Funny)

by curecollector ( 957211 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:58PM (#18769141)

Yep! Just ask the Duke lacrosse team...

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Heh. (Score:2, Funny)

by BJH ( 11355 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @01:01PM (#18769187)

From a local newspaper [pittsburghlive.com]:
"All the time stamps were screwed up. Some did (change over), some didn't," Charlton said. "Everyone's system had to be set manually. There were a lot of clocks involved."

Bit of a spelling mistake in there...
s/clocks/cocks/

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Re:Can you say... (Score:2, Funny)

by Mix+Master+Nixon ( 1018716 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @01:53PM (#18770169)

Yeah, it's silly - the principal's home phone number should have been posted as well.

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Re:Please knock it off. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @02:13PM (#18770523)

"The Slashdot effect" is bad enough. We can all individually look this information up, but when people start posting it with requisite "tee-hee, let THIS guy know" comments, it's an attempt to incite an electronic flashmobs and that is totally irresponsible, abusive and in the end pointless.
Absolutely! This kind of thing is only acceptable if you call to warn the recipient an hour before the "electronic flashbomb" detonates.

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Re:Luby's in Texas (Score:4, Funny)

by Fulcrum of Evil ( 560260 ) writes: on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @03:02PM (#18771415)

Let's hope this tragedy leads to repealing the laws banning firearms on college campuses in VA. After all, one guy with a pistol could've cut his rampage short.

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Daylight Savings Time Puts Kid in Jail for 12 Days

When did the RIAA... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Egg/School Principle In Massive Collision. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Wrongful impronment indeed - but who is to blam (Score:5, Funny)

I bet the video games made him do it! (Score:4, Funny)

Damn, we coulda got a gold medal for sure... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:When did the RIAA... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Damn, we coulda got a gold medal for sure... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Give the Students More Credit (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I have raised a child, two actually (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Can you say... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Give the principal a break (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Feel free to check out her website: (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Give the principal a break (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Give the Students More Credit (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Can you say... (Score:2, Funny)

Heh. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Can you say... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Please knock it off. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Luby's in Texas (Score:4, Funny)

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