Damn it, late again...

I have heard about some pretty ingenious ways to catch a plane that you are late for, but calling in a bomb threat is not a bright idea. In what was supposed to be the perfect plan to stop a plane from leaving this reporter behind, ended up costing him more than a second plane ticket...

A German journalist covering the European football championship tried to delay his flight from the northern Italian city of Verona to Vienna by making a fake bomb threat, according to reports in the Italian media.The 27-year-old showed up late at the Verona airport on Thursday and the ground personnel for airline Air Dolomiti told him he could no longer board the flight. That prompted the tardy hack to call the police to say there was a bomb onboard the plane.The fake threat closed air traffic at the airport for several hours while the bomb squad checked out the airplane. But shortly after his anonymous call to the police, the German journalist went back to the check-in counter to say he had heard the plane was no longer preparing to take off.
Since no public announcement had been made on the departures board as to the flight’s status, the man quickly became the prime suspect for the bomb threat. His mobile phone then confirmed police suspicions and he was arrested.

What do you know... he's smart enough to be a journalist, but can't figure out that caller ID will bust you? Never mind... my fault for thinking journalists are smart. Oh and no offence to you smart ones, the hat looks good on you...