Thursday, April 05, 2007

Daylight-Saving Time Snafu Nets Teen 12 Days in Juvenile Detention

Note: What a difference an hour can make.

GREENSBURG, Pa. — Most people lose an hour's sleep when clocks spring forward for daylight-saving time. One western Pennsylvania teen lost 12 days of freedom.

Cody Webb, 15, says he was wrongly charged with phoning in a bomb threat to his high school last month because the school district didn't reset a clock on a phone system, something police overlooked during their investigation.

Webb spent 12 days in the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center before a judge dismissed the charges.

Webb, an honors student active in student council, tennis and the Japanese Club at Hempfield Area High School, had never even been given detention, his mother, Linda, told the Tribune-Review of Greensburg for a story Wednesday.

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