Ex-Quinnipiac student calls in bomb threat at graduation to hide being a dropout

[Phurfur 70]

Police have arrested a 22-year-old woman who they say phoned in bomb threats to Quinnipiac University on Sunday in an attempt to get commencement ceremonies canceled so her family wouldn't know she wasn't graduating.

 

Danielle Shea of Quincy, Mass., is being held on $20,000 bond after giving police a detailed confession Sunday.

 

Hamden Police say Shea didn't attend the university this year, but her mother paid thousands of dollars she thought was for her daughter's education. They say when graduation arrived, Shea panicked when relatives didn't see her name on the graduation roster.

 

Police say Shea made two calls to the university saying there was a bomb. Commencement for the school's College of Arts and Sciences was delayed and moved indoors to the campus athletic arena.

 

The young woman reportedly called the Connecticut university's public safety department and stated there was a "bomb in the library." Shea allegedly called 17 minutes later saying, "several bombs are on campus. You havent cleared out graduation. Thats not a good idea."

 

The calls were quickly traced back to Shea and she was arrested. She was reportedly found inside the school's sports arena wearing a graduation cap and gown.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/19/former-quinnipiac-student-calls-in-bomb-threat-at-graduation-to-hide-was-drop/?intcmp=latestnews

[cyclone24 1,836]

Soooo.....if she knew she wasnt getting a diploma....why bother get a cap and gown for the ceremony?

[DankNuggs 305]

Soooooo the parents send the kid the tuition check?

[edjr 5,683]

it worked?

[DankNuggs 305]

it worked?

If her goal was to prevent her parents being most upset about her not graduating, she definitely succeeded.

[Voltaire 4,582]

Too bad the plan fell through; it was a nice effort though.

[ZeroTolerance 582]

Clearly she should have burned the building down.

[Mungwater 589]

I saw this yesterday and was curious to what her phase II was, she had the cap and gown, was she just going to run across? Like questions wouldn't be asked afterwards why she wasn't called, why she doesn't have her diploma, etc

 

Was she going to be like kanye and just grab the microphone?

[Voltaire 4,582]

I saw this yesterday and was curious to what her phase II was, she had the cap and gown, was she just going to run across? Like questions wouldn't be asked afterwards why she wasn't called, why she doesn't have her diploma, etc

 

Was she going to be like kanye and just grab the microphone?

If the situation unfolds according to plan, they would cancel the ceremony and send everybody home. At that point hopefully mail out the diplomas, rather than reschedule or else rinse/repeat until they get mailed out. In the mean time, she could ask spankmecurly for the phone number of the guy who issued her diploma.