I think this can probably go down in the ‘whoops’ file.

A Pennsylvania student was held in jail for 12 days after a bomb threat recorded by a school hot line service was wrongly attributed to him, Fox News reports.

Fifteen-year-old Cody Webb, of Greensburg, “called a school district hot line to listen to a recorded message about school delays at 3:12am EDT on 11 March”, his mobile phone records later revealed. The next morning, school officials discovered said bomb threat logged at 3:17am.

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In fact, because the school had not reset the clock on the hot line, which continued to show Eastern Standard Time, officials and police failed to spot that the bomb threat had actually come in at 4:17am - more than an hour after Webb’s innocent call.

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Watch for the wrongful arrest civil suit for sure - 12 days is a long time to work out such a fundamental error.

You may or may not have noticed the ‘Random Quote’ part of the sidebar to your left. I’ve been procrastinating from doing real work and added about 100 quotes to the database. A new random quote should appear on every page (or if you refresh your current page).

More quotes will be added the next time I get really bored.