A WISCONSIN grocery store clerk charged with making a hoax threat to detonate "dirty bombs" at US National Football League stadiums thought it was a joke no one would take seriously, the FBI said today.
| A joke! Heh heh! Atsa pretty fonny! |
Jake Brahm, 20, who lives at home with his parents in Wauwatosa near Milwaukee, was arrested after police there picked up rumours that he had been bragging about the hoax, said Richard Ruminski, of the Milwaukee FBI office. "It's a hoax. It's nonsense, not a credible threat," Mr Ruminski said. "But in a post 9-11 world, you take these threats seriously. It's almost like making a threat going onto an airplane - you just don't do it." Asked what Mr Brahm, held in federal custody, was thinking, Mr Ruminski said: "It seemed (to him) like a good idea. He thought it would be funny. Mr Brahm put out this threat thinking that it was so preposterous no one would take him seriously."
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Mr Brahm was accused of spreading a fake message on the internet that threatened to hit the sites with weapons of mass destruction and radioactive materials. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $US250,000 ($330,000) fine.
| I just love jokes with a 5-year punch line. |
| That fine will suck up his allowance from Mums and Dad for YEARS. |
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