Making a bomb threat is a felony that carries a penalty. Even joking about it can get you jailed, so it is relevant that we don’t say it carelessly. But in a fit of rage, Anaya Smith has made a mistake that could cost her a normal life.
A mother in Florida has been accused of calling a bomb threat into a high school cafeteria after a kid argued with her over the size of the food servings in the cafeteria.
Anaya Smith has been charged with one count of making a false bomb threat by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
A threat was made to Cocoa High School on February 3 by a caller who left an epithet-filled voicemail.
The caller threatened to blow up the mother f****er’s house if they didn’t improve the quality of the food they were serving her children.
As a precaution, the school was evacuated and the police were summoned, who discovered that the caller’s phone number matched that of Smith’s. One of the officers who worked on the case said that he had seen the woman in question before and that her voice sounded like the one on the recording.
Arrest papers were filed by the state attorney’s office on April 7. The 41-year-old mom was then detained by police on Wednesday, months after the alleged crime. In an interview with WOFL-TV, she refuted the claims.
“I don’t even speak like that,” Smith remarked. That’s not how I talk, and everyone who knows me well knows it.
She said that the phone number was not hers and that the student’s name on the arrest record was unfamiliar to her.
Smith was found to be the legal guardian of the student arguing with cafeteria personnel about not getting enough food.
“A little fact-checking would have prevented all of this. A single arrest can have a devastating effect on a person’s life. Not my sister’s life though. I will make sure of that,” Anaya Smith’s sister, Andrea, chimed in.”
Connor Hansen, a WOFL reporter, said they tried to phone the number in the report, but that it was unavailable.
Fortunately, no explosives were discovered at the school during the inquiry.
The severity of bomb threats should be widely known. It is not something you can say to anybody. There were other ways that Smith could have responded to her son’s food crisis, but instead, she chose violence. I say, she got the punishment she deserved.
