Are you late for your flight too???

Dara Robinson · 13-06-2008 8:13am #1

Anyone else hear of this?

LOL I hope he gets the full year in prison

Milan - Verona airport police say a German traveller running late called in a prank bomb scare to delay his flight.

Verona Airport police Chief Andrea Rasi says police received an emergency call around 11.15am on Wednesday saying there was a bomb on board a Vienna-bound Air Dolomiti flight that was scheduled to leave five minutes later. Authorities closed the airport and rerouted two in-bound flights to nearby Brescia.

Rasi says the 27-year-old German suspect was identified by tracing the call to his cell phone. He is under investigation for allegedly causing an alarm, a charge that carries a sentence of six months to a year. - Sapa-AP

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/12/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Bomb-Scare.php

Sherifu · 13-06-2008 8:14am

Lateral thinking at its finest.

Red Hand · 13-06-2008 8:17am

Pretty dumb.

Ponster · 13-06-2008 8:20am

Nice idea, but calling from his own phone?

he probably put it in 'secret' mode and presumed that that meant that the call couldn't be traced to his number (your number is never hidden from emergency service numbers like 112 or 911)