Link of the Day :: Clocks & Juvie

I read a lot of blogs everyday….  well, actually I skim a lot of blogs everyday, and thanks to googleReader I am able to do it all at one time.  One of the blogs that I read (skim) everyday is Engadget.  Engadget is a great blog that brings you every bit of tech news you’ll ever need and  a ton that you’ll never ever need.  I came across this post tonight and found it to be outrageous so I thought you might like it.

So even though the world didn’t come to an end due to the earlier daylight-savings time changeover this year, one 15-year resident of Hempfield, PA certainly got burned by the supposed energy-conserving maneuver, as his school’s inability or failure to change all of their clocks earned him 12 days in juvenile detention on charges of making a bomb threat. The story goes like this: For some reason sophomore Cody Webb decided to call the Hempfield Area High School delay hotline in the early morning hours of March 11 — very close to the time we “sprang ahead” — and claims to have hung up immediately after listening to the obvious “no delay” message. Well unfortunately for him, someone else called Hempfield that morning with a bomb threat, and because the phone system erroneously time-stamped that call as coming just minutes after Cody’s, school and local law enforcement geniuses decided that they must have been made by the same person (despite one call showing up on caller ID while the other was blocked). Long story short, it took Cody’s parents and their lawyer 12 days to get the honors student out of juvie…

The best news is that the school district didn’t appologize, but instead that the mistake came because the state hasn’t updated the technology to correct the problems that come from the changes in Daylight Savings.  Weird stuff.