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A New Jersey man who was distraught and angry over not being able to take his daughters to a One Direction concert was sentenced to 8 months in federal prison Tuesday for calling in a bomb threat before the boy band's July 5 performance at Hersheypark.
The phone call that William H. Klein, a 47-year-old divorced dad and former Federal Aviation Administration official, made to Hershey Entertainment and Resorts caused quite a ruckus, investigators said.
What Klein said, according to U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith, was, "If One Direction plays tomorrow, the stadium will blow up." That prompted a pre-concert lockdown of the stadium, while a bomb sweep was performed and the bags of all of the concert patrons were checked, Smith said.
One Direction did perform, though, before a packed crowd of screaming, mostly preteen, tween and teenage girls.
Smith said investigators from Derry Township police and the FBI traced the threatening call to a New Jersey number, which was found to be attached to a pay phone outside a 7-Eleven store in Northfield. Klein was identified as the caller through video surveillance footage from the store, Smith said, and he later pleaded guilty to an interstate communication with threat to injure charge.
One Direction? Seriously?
The most surprising and interesting bit of this report is that there is still a working pay phone in New Jersey.
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