She Closed Airport to Avoid Vacation with Boyfriend
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A Croatian woman was convicted Thursday of disturbing the peace for phoning a bomb threat to Duesseldorf airport to get out of a vacation with her boyfriend.
The woman was given a suspended sentence after admitting in court that she called authorities and, in a hoax, made an al Qaeda bomb threat because her parents disapproved of her boyfriend.
"I didn't know how I would be able to tell my parents about a holiday with him and I couldn't really say to him 'Listen, my parents wouldn't approve'," the woman, 28, identified only as Marina B., told the Duesseldorf state court Wednesday.
"Then I had the idea that if the trip could somehow be blocked by someone else, for example a bomb threat, then that would solve all the problems," she added. Her flight departed anyway, several hours late.
The threat prompted authorities to shut down Germany's third busiest airport on a busy Sunday in September, stranding 64,000 people for hours, while police searched in vain for a bomb.
Police initially arrested her boyfriend, after tracing the threatening phone calls to his cell phone, when the couple returned from Spain. He denied making the calls.
Prosecutors had demanded a three-year jail sentence for the woman. But the court opted to give her a two-year suspended sentence. Separately, she faces a damage claim of 1.5 million euros ($1.9 million) from the airport and airlines.
Should have jaied her.
She's 28 and still has to get her parents approval?
Hahahah. I heard this on 'Love Line' durring one of their little games (I think it was Florida or Germany).
Dumb bitch, if you ask me.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
Darth_Zod wrote:what the fuck? that's about as idiotic as the woman who joked to inspectors she had a bomb in her bag when they were doing a standard search.
in germany you usually don´t get jailtime for stuff that doesn´t involve physical harm or the actual threat of physical harm (e.g. commiting a crime while pointing a gun at someone) if it´s the first time you´re caught.
if that´s good or bad in general i´m not sure. in this case though i think it´s good because if she´s in jail she can´t work in order to get the 1.5 million € she has to pay.
Rogue 9 wrote:You're telling me an airport bomb threat isn't threatening everyone present with physical harm?
i meant directly, such as pointing a gun at someone. the hazard of the gun going off is present. the hazard of a non existant air port bomb going of is not.
Rogue 9 wrote:You're telling me an airport bomb threat isn't threatening everyone present with physical harm?
i meant directly, such as pointing a gun at someone. the hazard of the gun going off is present. the hazard of a non existant air port bomb going of is not.
Rogue 9 wrote:You're telling me an airport bomb threat isn't threatening everyone present with physical harm?
i meant directly, such as pointing a gun at someone. the hazard of the gun going off is present. the hazard of a non existant air port bomb going of is not.
Panic, stampede, trampling. All I've gotta say.
Nothing like that happened.
I don't see why she should go to jail. She'll be paying off the debts and live off only 800 Euros all her life for that mistake, it's bad enough.
Great Dolphin Conspiracy - Chatter box
"Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknown, everything is obvious." ZORAC GALE Force Euro Wimp Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
Rogue 9 wrote:Nothing like that happened, but its an imminent threat when you do something to potentially panic that many people in an enclosed building.
But she did not harm anyone, and the only damage done was the costs to the airport and the airlines.
And thus the judge decided she doen't need to go to jail.
Great Dolphin Conspiracy - Chatter box
"Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknown, everything is obvious." ZORAC GALE Force Euro Wimp Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
Rogue 9 wrote:You're telling me an airport bomb threat isn't threatening everyone present with physical harm?
i meant directly, such as pointing a gun at someone. the hazard of the gun going off is present. the hazard of a non existant air port bomb going of is not.
Panic, stampede, trampling. All I've gotta say.
salm also did mention that you didn't get jailed for your first offense, which seems to be the case with this woman. doesn't look like she has a record of doing anything this idiotic in the past, so first offense = warning, big ass fine it seems
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
Rogue 9 wrote:Nothing like that happened, but its an imminent threat when you do something to potentially panic that many people in an enclosed building.
hmm... have you got a statistic which could tell us the general behaviour of people during an evacuation?
also something about evacuation techniques would be interesting. i´m sure the airport officials didn´t drive around the airport in little golf carts with PA´s on them telling poeple to leave at once because there´s a big, big bomb somewhere. i´m pretty sure that they´re trained in doing stuff like that.
airports get closed due to bomb threats every once in a while. i can´t remember any stampedes though.
