Teens Charged With Calling in Ferry Threat

[meganmonkey]

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) - Four teenagers hoping to extend a weekend together on Nantucket phoned in a threat to the island's ferry operator, stranding more than 150 people in the resulting security scare, authorities said.

``Don't let the ferry leave or it will blow up,'' prosecutors quoted the caller to Hy-Line Cruises as saying. The threat Sunday night prompted authorities, already on high alert after the July 7 bombings in London, to halt ferries between Cape Cod and Nantucket.

About 160 passengers were stranded on the island, some of whom spent the night in the Nantucket High School gymnasium. Forty others were stuck on Cape Cod, unable to get to the island.

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Brad Bailey, the lawyer for Williams and Reed, said the teens are from good families and have never before been in trouble with the law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5157471,00.html

Well, as long as they're from 'good families'...

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. Yea, translation...

Brad Bailey, the lawyer for Williams and Reed, said the teens are from good families and have never before been in trouble with the law.

Brad Bailey, the lawyer for Williams and Reed, said the teens are from white families and are affluent enough to pay for a silver-tongued lawyer.

[despairing optimist]

2. That may save them from prison and maybe fines, but not from civil suits

I hope their parents have lots of money, because all those people inconvenienced (and perhaps more than inconvenienced) can sue their asses. With such ingenuity and leisure time they should be volunteered for military service.

[anotherdrew]

3. they've already learned to use terror to get their way, like bush

Really good families I bet