Boy's White House Bomb Call

[tomm2thumbs]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/116784/Boy%92s-White-House-bomb-call/

A giggling teenager who phoned the White House in a drunken prank and claimed there was a bomb in New York was spared jail yesterday.
Thomas Hutchinson, 19, sparked an international terrorism investigation after making the call at a barbecue.

He was given a six-month suspended sentence for the hoax in May 2008, in which he claimed there was a bomb in Madison Square Gardens. Stephen Acaster, prosecuting, told Sheffield Magistrates’ Court that in an expletive-filled call to the White House, Hutchinson who was then 17, said there was a bomb at the venue.

The operator pressed a malicious call trace button and the call was found to be a hoax from the UK. The US secret service, the FBI, and the UK Counter Terrorism Unit were all involved in the investigation. He pleaded guilty after at first denying the charge, was ordered to do 250 hours’ unpaid work and pay £70 costs.


_____________

amazing someone could even get through with all the calls about Health Care

[FrenchieCat]

1. Where there calls on Health Care back in May of '08?

"He was given a six-month suspended sentence for the hoax in May 2008" :shrug:

[MADem]

2. Immature little shit. He got off light. nt

[JI7]

3. boy ? i thought it would say he was like 14 or younger

[zbdent]

4. remember, the media has its agenda ...

it was a "young girl" ... Monica Lewinsky was 22 at the time ...

a man had a "youthful indiscretion" ... but the Republican Senator fathered the child when he was older than Bill Clinton was when BC received the BJ from ML ...

media hushed up underage drinking ... when the Bush twins were 18 ... and the restaurant owner was pressured ... suddenly, the discussion was about "lowering the drinking age" ...

a "woman" was raped ... despite the fact that the female in question was 13 or 14 at the time, and was raped by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, in front of her family, which was shot and killed right in front of her ...

it was a youthful prank ... even though the Eagle Scout who, with two friends, stole the 140 Obama signs in the Akron Ohio area was over 18 at the time ... and the father hoped that this wouldn't harm the "kid's" future ...

[Javaman]

5. social darwinism. nt