Man Paid a Friend to Fake an Isis Bomb Threat so He Could Skip Work

Aaron O’Neill decided against all the usual pulling a sickie excuses when he wanted the day off from tech company Intel.The 20-year-old sub-contractor paid pal Colin Hammond, 21, to stage a bomb threat from Islamic State.

According to the Irish Times, the men had been out drinking and taking tablets the night before the 6am bomb threat was made.Hammond called using a payphone outside his home.

Obviously, police had to take dramatic action over the suspected terror threat, shutting down a motorway, disrupting air traffic control and preventing 4,000 Intel staff from going to work.

Hammond told the emergency operator: ‘You will not find them, this is a warning, we’re everywhere now.’

And when asked which organisation he represented, he responded: ‘Islamic State’.