For all the men (and we know plenty of women who do the same, but would never admit to it) out there who are not shy about letting family members and close friends know when it’s time for you to take care of business, be forewarned: Your gas passing jokes may land you in jail under terrorism related charges.
That’s what happened to Harold Wayne Hadley, Jr., 19, of Ellisville Mississippi, who recently passed gas in his school library. While the worst that could happen for such a crude but common high school joke is generally suspension, eleven local, state and federal agencies descended upon the school when Mr. Hadley left evidence of his crime.
According to the Daily Mail, written on a piece of toilet paper later traced to Mr. Hadley was a note that said, “I passed a bomb in the library.” An alert member of the school staff contacted police, at which point a counter terrorism task force was immediately deployed to the area.
“He was in the restroom doodling on some toilet paper and I am going to just let modesty go and tell you, we are from the country, and so he calls passing gas, ‘bomb’” explained Hadley’s aunt. “And somebody come in and found it, give it to the teacher that recognized his hand writing and it blew all out of proportion,” she continued.
So the next time you’ve got to head to the little boys’ room and decide to crack a joke about “going to drop a bomb” or “blowing up the toilet” consider that you may end up being detained indefinitely at a Guantanamo style facility under the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act.
And to Mr. Hadley’s aunt, we also send warning about BLOWING things out of proportion.
What, exactly, did you mean by that, mam?
