A bro from Ireland who paid his mate to make a fake ISIS bomb threat in order to get out of work has appeared in court, and will likely be ordered to perform community service – a light punishment, all things considered.
In January of this year, 20-year-old former Intel contractor Aaron O’Neill was out “drinking and taking tablets” with 21-year-old mate Colin Hammond when he decided that going into work the next day was too much bloody hassle.
He then hit upon the ingenious idea of paying his mate to make a fake bomb threat, which he did, from a payphone outside his home.
Hammond told Intel staff that there were bombs set to go off in their premises in 12 hours, adding “you will not find them, this is a warning, we’re everywhere now.” When asked who he was, he replied “Islamic State.”
Per reports in the Irish Times, the resulting cluster-whoops “shut down a motorway, disrupted air traffic control and prevented 4,000 Intel staff from going to work”, costing the company somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 hours of production.
Judge Martin Nolan, who presided over the case, described O’Neill’s actions as “profoundly stupid”, adding “it is a very, very strange way to avoid going to work,” which is the understatement of the fucking decade.
Hammond was ordered to perform 200 hours’ community service for his part in the incident, while O’Neill, whose case has been adjourned until January, will likely face something similar.
PSA: If you really want to get out of work that desperately, just say you’ve got the bloody flu or something.
via The Independent
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