It probably seemed like a good idea at the time

A South Florida secretary e-mailed a bomb threat to American Airlines to make sure her boss had time to catch a pre-Thanksgiving flight from Miami to Honduras. The plane was detained—and so was Claudia De La Rosa after police traced the e-mail back to her work computer ... Police arrested her for making a false bomb report, a crime punishable with a prison term of up to 15 years.