A twenty year old student at Harvard University was arrested and charged after making a fake bomb threat. Authorities say that Eldo Kim’s actions required the evacuation of four different buildings on Monday. Kim, a Cambridge resident, told the FBI that he had made the bomb threat because he wanted to avoid taking a final examination. Apparently, Eldo Kim hadn’t studied for the exam, and needed a few more days. He was hoping that the bomb threat that he called in would give him at least a day but now it looks as if not being prepared for whatever final examination he was trying to avoid is going to be the least of his problems. Of course, the other students who were taking the final exams in the buildings that were evacuated will not be able to have some extra time to prepare.
Police tracked down Kim through the email that he sent. He tried to use applications that his his email address but since he sent it from a university wi-fi network the police were able to track down where the emails actually came from. “Kim stated he chose the word ‘shrapnel’ because it sounded more dangerous and wrote, ‘2/4. guess correctly,’ so that it would take more time for the Harvard Police Department to clear the area,” said an FBI statement in the charges. Kim appeared in a U.S. District court today. If he is found guilty of this crime, he faces a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison.