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 Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:48 pm Australian teen makes a fake bomb threat... |
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| Quote: | 'Make a bomb threat or I'll miss my flight'
By staff writers and wires
August 02, 2005
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A YOUNG Australian woman triggered a bomb hoax and caused three aircraft to be delayed because she was running late for a flight, a British court has heard.
Angela Sceats, 19, originally from Sydney but now living in London, is on trial accused of falsely claiming there was a bomb aboard a Ryanair flight to Dublin from Stansted in England.
The waitress allegedly got a friend to call in a bomb threat on the flight she was trying to catch, the Press Association reported.
The court heard she sent her friend an SMS asking her to make a 999 call from a payphone, put on an accent and say a man was holding a gun to her head while she phoned in the bomb threat.
She was on her way to Stansted airport to catch a flight to Dublin, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
"It is, in effect, a hoax bomb call," prosecutor Noel Casey told the jury.
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"She caused a 999 call to be made, saying there was a bomb on this flight.
"In a slightly unusual way in that she got in touch with a friend of hers, Angela Forster, another Australian citizen living in Islington in London.
"She got in touch with her by way of, amongst other things, a text message from her mobile phone.
"She caused Miss Forster to believe there was a bomb on board that flight and it was Miss Forster who made the 999 call."
Ms Sceats has denied a charge of communicating false information with intent, PA said.
The court heard a tape recording of Ms Forster's 999 call to police.
Ms Forster was heard saying on the tape: "I just got a message from my friend who is meant to be boarding the 8.10am flight from London to Dublin.
"She has just messaged me to say I have got to call the police. There is a bomb on board."
Ms Forster spelled out the text message, telling police that it said: "Can you call the police. There is a bomb on board. The flight is 8.10. Leaving from Stansted. Going to Dublin. The number is 999. Do it now."
The message was allegedly followed by another text message saying the threat was "serious".
He said Ms Sceats had sent another text saying: "Absolutely. Hurry up. Do it from the payphone outside. Put on an accent. Tell them there is a man with a gun to your head telling you to make the phone call."
Ms Sceats told police under questioning at the airport: "It has all been a bit of a misunderstanding. I was running late for my flight. I knew I would not make it.
"I told her to get them to hold the plane up. Tell them there is a bomb on board. It's all just been a joke."
Jurors were told that police had considered closing the airport but after an officer spoke to Ms Sceats he decided there was no bomb threat and allowed flights to leave as normal.
Ms Sceats, who has pleaded not guilty, denies communicating false information with intent.
She says she told police she had been joking and that her friend had misunderstood.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said staff from the Australian High Commission had been in regular contact with Ms Sceats and her lawyer since her arrest.
She was released on bail on December 2. |
Soruce: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16125669-2,00.html
Wow.... This person is an idiot.
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nadia
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:54 am |
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Oh my gosh how dumb can she get! An Australian too, must have been blond! I hope she feels bad, what shame she has brought to......me
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:58 am |
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Yes, you're such a victim.
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nadia
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:03 am |
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Im just saying that she's and idot! My mum says she should be locked up! I agree!
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:06 am |
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I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm.
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jonathan95
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:06 am |
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its amaxing the lengths people will goto just to get some where on time.
I say a tv program ages ago on how a man caused a major car pile up just cas he was late for work, he took a shortcut down the wrong side of the road off the motor way cas it was quiet, running against the traffic,
when the shocked police officers finaly caught up with him after he managed to avoid the 7 car crash at a rush our time roundabout where cars wernt expecting a car to be rtraveling to wards them as they exided the round about,
the man said to the officer, I cannot stop now I am late for work, the police officer said in a calm and sickened voice, you best phone in you wont be there for a while I arresting yuou.....
It's sick,stupid, daft silly, which ever how could you make a stupid thing like that up in the middle of all what is going on just to catch a flight. I mean you never heard of just catching the next one.,
I hope she gets put away and then made to do community server the monment she's releazed.
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nadia
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:19 am |
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| IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm. |
Well what name does that give to Australia? That we're all a pack of bimbo's who make fake bomb threats so we don't miss our flight! How stupid!
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:00 am |
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| Quote: | "In a slightly unusual way in that she got in touch with a friend of hers, Angela Forster, another Australian citizen living in Islington in London.
"She got in touch with her by way of, amongst other things, a text message from her mobile phone. |
That part just disturbs me.  Have these people never heard of a text message before? Text messages are one of the most popular forms of communication amongst people now. You can send messages . . . to devices that are almost permanently attached the recipient. Novel idea!
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:05 pm |
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| nadia wrote: | | IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm. |
Well what name does that give to Australia? That we're all a pack of bimbo's who make fake bomb threats so we don't miss our flight! How stupid! |
I'm sure it has nothing to do with nationality. All people do ignorant things.
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nadia
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| Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:52 am |
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Tell me about it 
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Dirt
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| Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:03 am |
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| nadia wrote: | | IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm. |
Well what name does that give to Australia? That we're all a pack of bimbo's who make fake bomb threats so we don't miss our flight! How stupid! |
You're absolutly right, they are all ex-criminals anyway!
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| Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:25 pm |
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She should be barred from air travel. And every time she has to take a boat, she can pass her time away telling how she kept a plane grounded with a fake bomb threat.
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nadia
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| Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:02 pm |
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| Dirt wrote: | | nadia wrote: | | IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm. |
Well what name does that give to Australia? That we're all a pack of bimbo's who make fake bomb threats so we don't miss our flight! How stupid! |
You're absolutly right, they are all ex-criminals anyway! |
Hay 
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Otter
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| Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:39 am |
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with the state the worlds in right now it was a realy stupid thing 2 do, not that I'm saying it's alright 2 do it otherwise, crazzy woman.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:43 am |
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She must have lost her mind.
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Jeremy
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| Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:17 am |
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It is a stupid thing to do, but is pretty funny anyway.
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| Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:31 pm |
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| nadia wrote: | | Dirt wrote: | | nadia wrote: | | IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I agree, too. I was talking about how you said that she caused you shame, silly. It was saaarcasm. |
Well what name does that give to Australia? That we're all a pack of bimbo's who make fake bomb threats so we don't miss our flight! How stupid! |
You're absolutly right, they are all ex-criminals anyway! |
Hay |
How many times have we been over this? We have none!
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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
-Wuthering Heights
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