Mom Outraged by Son's Arrest Reportedly Knew He Was Making Bomb Threats

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519570,00.html

Mom Outraged by Son's Arrest Reportedly Knew of His Web Stardom for Phone Threats

Sunday, May 10, 2009

When a North Carolina woman accused the federal government last week of abusing the Patriot Act to imprison her teenage son for allegedly making bomb threats, the mother's allegation caused quite an uproar, including calls to free 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby.

But a new report by Wired News suggests that, not only was the teenager an online superstar in rogue tech communities for his prank phone calls, but his mother may have known all along that the boy was conspiring with others to make bomb threats.

Lundeby, known online as "Tyrone," allegedly had progressed into selling his services as a threatmaker, charging schoolchildren from across the country $5 apiece to place threatening, Internet-based phone calls that would cause administrators to shut down their schools, Wired News reports.

"I heard the prank phone calls he made," his mother, Annette Lundeby, said in the Wired report. "They were really funny prank calls."

On top of that, the U.S. Attorney's office handling the case says her story about abuse of the Patriot Act was false.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Put the idiot mother in jail, too.

[valerief]

2. And tie her tubes. nt

[melm00se]

6. that comment

reminds me of the forced sterilizations that occurred in the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_sterilization#United_States

Feels good to be part of that crowd doesn't it?

[valerief]

8. Pardon my levity. nt

[imdjh]

3. My mother would shush us if we even said "nixon" on the phone

....or a host of other words. "Not on the phone!" , she would say. My mom was a young adult during HUAC and also remembers when phone calls were connected by "Sarah" rather than automatic switching. She has always taught us to be careful on the phone.

[Sequoia]

5. I'm reading about that incident right now in "Nixonland".

The HUAC was a bit before my time but then I was born and grew up during the Nixon years. So many things in this book makes me gasp with surprise. This mother is an idiot to think bomb prank calls are funny.

[yellowcanine]

4. What a surprise. She sure laid the false outrage on thick. The kicker for me was when she said,

"I don't even know how to make bombs." Excuse me? The charge is bomb threats, not bombs. And it is your son, not you. Thou dost protest too much, methinks.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. WTF? Sounds like something Cartman would come up with. nt