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Man jailed for fake 1D bomb threat
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 26 February 2014
Who hasn’t fantasised about blowing up a One Direction concert? (Actually I haven’t, and I’m kinda worried that you subconsciously nodded while reading that sentence.) But I think it’s fair to say most of us wouldn’t be stupid enough to actually phone in a bomb threat.
But one William H Klein of Pennsylvania did just that last July, calling the offices of the Hersheypark Stadium to say: “If One Direction plays tomorrow, the stadium will blow up”. And while the event did still go ahead, security had to be stepped up at the venue, with a full bomb sweep of the site and all fans’ bags being searched on entry.
Prosecutors tracked the fake bomb threat to a payphone, and from there CCTV footage showed Klein making the call. He was jailed for eight months for making the threat.
