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Stink Bombs

It all started when someone at Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Miss., found what they thought was a bomb threat in the bathroom. They gave the toilet paper note to a teacher, who recognized the handwriting. Investigators eventually arrested Harold Hadley, Jr., 19, for writing the note, which said, “I passed a bomb in the library.” Hadley, a straight-A student scheduled to graduate in May, insists he meant something different when he used the word “bomb.” His aunt agrees: “I am going to just let modesty go and tell you we are from the country, and so he calls passing gas — ‘bombs’,” she said, and the teacher “recognized his hand writing and it blow all out of proportion.” (MS/WDAM Laurel) ...In more ways than one.