Beyonce Has A Stalker

It is reported that the singer Beyonce has been receiving threats from a person to kidnap her. The same person threatened to kidnap her in the past but this time she is taking it more seriously because the person mentioned a couple of personal detail about her that got her camp nervous and they don’t want to take any chances. So far, they are working with the FBI to ensure her safety.

Mentally Ill Man Charged with Threatening to Shoot President Bush

It is reported in Tampa, FL that a mentally ill homeless man, named Timothy Wade Pinkston, was charged with threatening to shoot President Bush. Secret Service agents were called to the psychiatric unit of St. Joseph’s Hospital where Pinkston resided. Pinkston told the hospital workers that he planned on going to Washington and shoot the president. When the Secret Service agents arrived, he repeated the threat. He said that he doesn’t like the president’s foreign policy or the way he is handling the war in Iraq.

Pinkston was charged with a federal crime of threatening the president. He also was charged in 1991 with threatening the president and sent threatening letters to the governor of Georgia.

A College Application Causes Bomb Scare

It is reported that on Friday emergency crews had to evacuate and Eastern Illinois University building after a campus postal carrier found a package which had no return address, was poorly written with many misspellings and addressed to the university. There was some tape over the package and it had a rather strange appearance.

The package looked strange enough that the police called the bomb squad. Explosives investigators x-rayed the package and blocked off the street before they noticed that the package only contained an application to the school. They wouldn't say if the bomb scare would affect the person's chances for admission to the school but it would be processed like the rest of the applications.

Doctor Causes Bomb Threat

It is reported that a doctor in Seattle, Washington who had missed his flight with Northwest Airlines called the police three times to tell the operators that there was a bomb on the plane, which forced the plane’s return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The doctor went to court on Thursday, July 26th, and was charged with making a false threat against an aircraft. He admitted that he used a payphone at the airport to call 911 emergency services three times after he arrived at the gate too late to board the plane. After his first call of claiming there was a bomb on the plane, he looked outside and noticed that the call had no effect so he made a second and third call.

The doctor claimed that he thought the calls would make the airline ground the plane for a couple of hours because bomb threats are taken seriously. He also claimed that he had not been taking his antidepressant medication.

When the plane was brought back, it was grounded for several hours while the authorities determined the threat to be false. Northwest Airlines estimated that they lost $70,000 in fuel, gate fees, and other expenses.