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The Market in Academic Bomb Threats

By Kim Krawiec

So, you?ve decided that egg and sperm selling are not for you, and the California IOUs don?t look like such a great investment now that Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan have allowed the time limit they set on accepting the IOUs to expire.  Chin up ? there are other income opportunities during the recession. 

Just ask Ashton Lundeby, a North Carolina teen who has been arrested, and will be tried as an adult, for placing bomb threats to Purdue University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Clemson University, and Florida State University, then charging Web gamers for the privilege of listening to and observing the police responses.  According to news reports, Lundeby and his co-conspirators are alleged to have threatened locations covered by webcams.  They then broadcast the video live to as many as 300 subscribers.  See here and here for news coverage.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on July 11, 2009 (boomark / email).