Police: Woman called in bomb threats to graduation

[davidn3600]

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A 22-year-old woman called in bomb threats to a Quinnipiac University's commencement in Connecticut in a bid keep her family from learning that she wasn't graduating despite taking money for her education from her mother, according to police.

Danielle Shea of Quincy, Massachusetts, was wearing a cap and gown she'd purchased when she was arrested Sunday, Hamden police said. Police said she gave a detailed confession.

Shea was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Meriden Superior Court. Shea is being held on $20,000 bond. It was unclear whether she has an attorney. Messages were left at her mother's home.

Police said Shea didn't attend the university this year, but her mother paid thousands of dollars she thought was for her daughter's education. When graduation arrived, Shea panicked when relatives didn't see her name on the graduation roster and tried to have the ceremony canceled, they said.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-woman-called-bomb-threats-graduation-144017342.html

[gratuitous]

1. . . . and THAT's part of why I didn't graduate

The ability to think critically and imagine long-term consequences is part of what you were going to college to learn, Danielle. It would appear that you thoroughly earned your humiliation. The larger question now is: Did you learn anything, cupcake?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If she thought she was going to be in trouble

before she called in the bomb threats...

She really should have gone to class. Maybe she'd have learned something. What she obviously never managed to pick up on her own would include long-term planning and critical thinking. And maybe why it's not a good idea to call in a bomb threat from you own phone.

[davidn3600]

3. Not the brightest kid obviously....

She doesnt realize how good she had it that her mother was willing and able to pay for her education and she doesn't even have the decency to tell her family she dropped out...instead just pocketed the money.

[alp227]

4. local sources

Hartford Courant; New Haven Register

[theHandpuppet]

5. The Class of '14 Darwin Award Winner

Hmmm... I wonder which "the most likely to.." award she received from her classmates?