Via Slashdot: Strip-Or-Get-Bombed Threat Spreads

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.kpho.com/news/13996055/detail.html
 
PHOENIX -- A telephone caller making a bomb threat to a Hutchinson, Kan.,
grocery store kept more than 100 people hostage, demanding they disrobe and
that the store wire money to his bank account. 

Tuesday's incident may be part of a broader scam targeting other businesses
around the country, the FBI said. Similar bomb threats are under
investigation at more than 15 stores in at least 11 states -- all in the
past week, authorities said.
 
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Caller Threatens To Cut Fingers Off 

He then demanded that one of Piros' fingers be cut off for every hour his
demands were not met, and another employee got a butcher knife on his
orders, Case said. Jim Peterson, a customer, told the newspaper that people
became distraught. 

"People came undone and started saying, 'No, no,"' he said. 

Piros was not harmed. Police there initially said they were investigating
whether the caller had hacked into the surveillance system, but later backed
away from that possibility. 

Authorities said the caller appeared to have visual access to the store,
although officials were investigating whether the caller was out of state
and may have hacked into the store's security system.
 
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