The Long Detention

The Daylight Saving Time change claims another victim:

A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat – because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.

Twelve days in a lockup because they got the wrong guy. That is 10 days longer than the usual length of sentences handed down for DUI in Utah… if it ever even comes to trial.

The Daylight Saving Time change claims another victim:

A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat – because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward.

Twelve days in a lockup because they got the wrong guy. That is 10 days longer than the usual length of sentences handed down for DUI in Utah… if it ever even comes to trial.

What would you do if you were incarcerated due to administrative incompetence regarding evidence?

2 thoughts on “The Long Detention”

  1. Something’s Not Right

    My crap detector is going off about that story. Something about the way it was written or the details in it lead me to believe something’s not right here.

    12 days?

    My $.02 Weed

    1. Not baloney… corroborating article

      Here’s the corroborating article from the hometown newspaper of the high school.

      Additionally, the school no longer allows calls from blocked phone numbers. Yeah, like that’s a big deterrent, spoofing an ANI record is trivial…

      The principal screwed up, and the police and judicial system did not have a process in place for handling juvenile terrorism suspects in a timely manner. “Bureaucratic nightmare” seems to describe the string of mixups.

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      Matthew P. Barnson

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