Bad Joke or Bomb Threat? Arab Electrical Student at UT El Paso University Charged with Making Bomb Threat
Seems some people can’t take a “joke” about bombs and how “fun” it is to “blow people up”.
The incident happened at the University of Texas of El Paso Biological Science building on November 18 when Ahmad Ibrahim Fares-Hammad, an Arab electrical engineering student, was asked by an administrative student what he was carrying. Unfortunately for Fares-Hammad, the assistant was unfamiliar with him and with the object he carried: small device with short metal poles that had yellow, red and blue wires, which, according to ABC 7, was something electrical students “typically carry around”.
When the assistant asked Fares-Hammad what he was carrying, Fares-Hammad responded:
“It is a remote control used to blow people up.” The employee then remarked, “That is mean and not very nice.” Fares-Hammad then told her, “It is fun to blow people up,” according to the FBI investigator who interviewed the employee.
Fares-Hammad then asked the employee for water and she directed him to a water tank. Fares-Hammad noticed there were no water cups attached to the tank and told the employee he needed a cup. At that point, he told her, “You think because we are Arab we will blow people up. I won’t blow you up,” according to the FBI investigator. The employee then asked him, “You think I’m flattered by that?” Fares-Hammad replied, “You should be flattered,” according to the investigator.
Bad joke, snark, or bomb threat, a federal jury will be the judge as Fares-Hammad’s “act” was caught on surveillance cameras and Fares-Hammad was charged “with “maliciously making false information concerning alleged attempts to injure, kill, or unlawfully damage or destroy a building by means of explosive”.
FBI: UTEP student made false bomb threat, said ‘it is fun to blow people up’
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