Cops: Woman makes threat to delay flight

Allison Pitts--soc 313-Blog #5
South Florida woman allegedly wanted to keep her boss from missing plane
The Associated Press
updated 7:53 p.m. MT, Mon., Nov . 30, 2009
MIAMI - A South Florida woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight. An arrest report said a 31-year-old woman was charged Thursday with making a false report of planting a bomb.

Miami International Airport officials received a call and an e-mail Wednesday claiming that a bomb was on an American Airlines plane. Police searched the specified aircraft but didn't find a bomb.

Investigators tracked the e-mail to the woman's computer.

During questioning, the woman reportedly told police that her boss had been booked on the flight to Honduras, but she had caused him to be late for the flight. She thought the bomb threat would give her boss time to make it.

The woman was being held on $7,500 bail.

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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34214814/ns/us_news-weird_news/

In relation to the Parenti text, this is another example of surveillance in America. The woman getting arrested because of her e-mail being tracked, shows how we are living in a society that is constantly being watched. It seems as though nothing that one does is private anymore. There is always a way to trace things back to their originator. Surveillance of this nature influences the way that people think. When it is known that something can be traced back to you, then you are going to maybe think twice before doing something of this nature.