Tom Peel wrote:
> A German court has awarded 207,000 Euros in damages against a 32 year
>old student who caused a hoax bombscare at Düsseldorf airport in 2003.
>The action for damages was brought by the Düsseldorf airport as
>compensation for the loss of business caused by the evacuation of the
>terminal building. Further civil court actions are pending from the
>police, fire brigade and an airline, which could bring the bill to over
>400,000 Euros- over half a million dollars.
> The civil actions come on top of the 2 year suspended sentence already
>passed in 2004. The student had made the fake phone calls in order to
>avoid flying on vacation with her boyfriend.
>http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,487524,00.html
>
I think this is more a sad story than anything else. She saw herself
as being in an awkward situation and made a very bad decision on how
she might extricate herself from it. The consequences were, I suppose,
inevitable.
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PB
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