Fifteen year old Cody Webb was chatting with his girlfriend on his cell phone at about 2am March 11th—the night daily-light savings time was scheduled to push clocks ahead an hour—at 2am.

Cody told later, "I was bored, so I wondered what the recording said when you called in Hempfield's school delay hot line. I called in and it said to push '72,' which I did, and it said there were no delays. Then it disconnected me." His cell phone number showed up on the school's call recorder.

But at 3:10am a "male juvenile" called the high school and said he would bomb the school Monday. The phone number was blocked.

Police matched the recorded time of the call, to the list of numbers making those calls. Between the two lists, the bomb threat was recorded to have been made at 3:10am using the school's clocks and Copy's number was recorded as calling at 3:10am on the other list using the phone company's clocks.

Cody told of his treatment, "Mrs. Charlton asked me if I had a cell phone. I said, 'Yeah,' and she said, 'What's the number?' I told her, and she started saying, 'We got him. We got him.' I was completely oblivious to what they were talking about," he said.

They tried to bully him into confessing, something some children will do whether guilty or not, when faced with larger, more dominant school officials, something actually illegal when the child is not accompanied by their parent.

"I wasn't going to admit to something I didn't do," he said. "Me and God know I didn't do it."

Eventually Cody's parents, Linda and Budd Webb, arrived and listened to the recording of the bomb threat. It was obviously not their son, not that that mattered, it seems.

"They kept saying that it was his voice. They didn't even know him," Cody's mother said.

After a state trooper arrived, High school Principal Kathy Charlton told Cody he was being arrested, and the trooper read him his rights.

Cody was charged with a felony count of threatening to use weapons of mass destruction and misdemeanor counts of making false alarms to public entities, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. (I want to point out here that it seems ironic that the mere word "bomb" is taken to officially denote a "weapon of mass destruction" while the numerous weapons capable of killing an entire city's worth of people, found in Iraq are still not considered "weapons of mass destruction", anyway, I digress)

Cody is an honors student, is involved in student council, tennis and the Japanese Club. Obviously a delinquent if there ever was one. He was then taken to the county's juvenile detention center where he stayed 12 days.

"Cody never even had a (school) detention," his mother said. "It was a nightmare."

But after Cody's parents were finally able to obtained his cell phone records, their attorney found the call times didn't match.

"I found out the district had not changed their clocks to reflect daylight-saving time," family attorney Tim Andrews said. "They were changed Monday morning."

The High School Principal finally admitted that some of the district's clocks were wrong because of the changeover to daylight-saving time, which was three weeks earlier this year, and Cody was released and all charges dropped.

Cody's mother is arranging home-schooling for him until he decides where to continue his education. He definitely doesn't want to return to Hempfield.