Apple Store Bomb Threat Lands Teenager in Jail
Apple Store Bomb Threat Lands Teenager in Jail
Posted 01/15/2010 at 6:06pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Okay look, you may not like Apple very much. We get that. You might feel that their computers are overpriced and their closed platform is contrary to your philosophical views. But whatever you do, don’t threaten to blow up an Apple Store. The buzzkill authorities tend to frown upon that sort of behavior. One New York 17 year-old by the name of Justin Barry did not take heed of this bit of common sense.
He allegedly walked into an Apple Store and typed the following into one of the display computers before leaving: “I have threatened your store and all its employees with a bloody death ... whoever the crew maybe working, or the innocent citizens that walk in ... will be eliminated with the force of a... bomb loaded with C4, strapped to my chest.”
When a store employee discovered the note, the police were called. Young Justin was quickly apprehended and is being charged with making terroristic threats. That carries a possible penalty of seven years in prison. For his part, Justin said it was only a joke. All the stupidest crimes start out as jokes, don’t they?
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giminicologu
June 25, 2010 at 9:02am
Well the right reaction to this article is LOL, I mean why would anyone threat a Apple store, what did not get any discounts, then join the easysaver program, do not go making such illegal problems for yourself.
tom_stone
January 18, 2010 at 12:08am
To the guy claiming to know what a TERRORIST is, here's a definition: a person who terrorizes or frightens others. The KID posted a message for the pupose of FRIGHTENING OTHERS (Customers and Employees of the Apple Store), so yes by definition the KID is a TERRORIST. And yes what he was doing was TERRORISM, which by definition is deliberate violence or threat of violence. So yah it's bad enough we have to worry about idiots trying to blow up planes and shoot people, we don't need stupid KIDs thinking it's funny to post messages threating to harm other people. To me he is a TERRORST and yes what he did is TERRORISM.
M-ManLA
January 15, 2010 at 9:07pm
Just like Gilbert Arenas though it was funny to bring a gun to the arena. Idiots.
quickone
January 15, 2010 at 7:37pm
ok,people need to look up terrorism in a dictionary or even Wikipedia to learn when to apply the title. The kid was not threatening the public to push his own political ideas or to cause terror to gain an upper hand. Terrorist laws should not be applied to 17 year old kids who did something stupid.
People/laws go to far in applying pop titles like terrorism. The attack on the USS Cole was by definition
NOT a terrorist attack because it was a military/government target. Killing people to scare them so they'll do what you want or to gain power, THAT is terrorism. Typing a message on a laptop in a store making a threat is not. That kid is scared shitless, punishment enough, he learned his lession.
~~The difference between insanity and genius is merely succes~~
COMMANDER_COOK
January 15, 2010 at 9:37pm
At the age of 17, I was scared shitless having my miranda rights read to me after squirting some (washable, might I add) paint on a teacher's back. "criminal mischeif" was the charge. They said they could have gone with battery or assault, but were "Giving me a break".
All this happened to the same teacher who assigned a record breaking 27 detentions in one day.
gendoikari1
January 15, 2010 at 7:17pm
To quote Cracked, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation.
Lost hopes:
Warcraft IV
Timesplitters 4
Star Wars: Battlefront III
Mercenaries 3 (but with LucasArts)
vistageek
January 15, 2010 at 6:58pm
this gives me an idea...lets turn all the radical terrorists against apple. JK
nekollx
January 18, 2010 at 9:44am
dman them Terrorist, ter-ror!
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