75-year Old Man Makes Bomb Threat

75-year Old Man Makes Bomb Threat – A 75-year-old man named Draco Slaughter told a flight attendant on Southwest Airlines he had a bomb in his carry-on luggage, forcing passengers to exit while authorities inspected the aircraft for two hours.

Southwest Flight 373 had arrived at about 2:35 p.m. at the Ronkonkoma airport, about 50 miles east of New York City on Long Island, and passengers were getting off the plane when an attendant noticed a carry-on bag on an empty seat across from Slaughter, police said.

When asked about the bag, Slaughter said it was his bag and “there was a bomb in it,” police said.

The flight attendant notified the pilot, and the pilot contacted airport law enforcement, who met the arriving plane at the gate.

“We take this stuff very seriously,” Teresa Rizzuto, commissioner of the Long Island MacArthur Airport, told reporters.

The suspect, identified as 75-year old Draco Slaughter of Chicago, was arrested on a charge of first-degree falsely reporting an incident, police said. No reason was given for making the bomb threat.

The bomb scare forced all of the through passengers on the flight to Palm Beach to deplane so the aircraft could be screened to explosives.

None were found, but the continuing leg of the flight to Florida was delayed by about two hours.

And that’s the latest from Action News on 75-year Old Man Makes Bomb Threat.

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Grandmother Has Devil Horns

Grandmother Has Devil Horns – A Chinese grandmother who is 101 years old is growing devil horns from her forehead and says she likes them.

The 101-year-old Chinese woman who grew a single devil-like horn from her forehead has confirmed that she’s now growing a matching one on the other side of her head – and says that she’s looking forward to it.

Zhang Ruifang first noticed the horn on the left side of her forehead developing in 2009 – and it’s now around nearing three inches in length.

And she says that doctors have now confirmed earlier suspicions that she’s now developing a similar growth on the right side of her forehead.

Zhang says she’s turned down offers to have them removed – because the 101-year old says she’s never had so many well-wishers and visitors at her home in Linlou, eastern China.

“At first it was a nuisance sleeping and so on, but now I get people visiting me all the time bringing me food and gifts and asking to take my picture.”

“I had some doctors who said they would cut it off for free but I told them no. In fact I’m quite looking forward to when the matching one has grown a bit,’”she explained.

Youngest son Zhang Guozheng, 60, said he and his five brothers have given up trying to persuade their mother to have them removed.

He said: ‘She is on her own a lot of time and we didn’t pay much attention to it until too late and by then she seemed to be quite attached to leaving them there.’

The growths are likely to be ‘cutaneous horns’ – growths made of keratin, the same substance that makes up fingernails.

Although most cutaneous horns are less than an inch in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin.

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