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Bomb threat: A lie for love

Create a Valentine’s Day heart-shaped box to hold surprise notes telling your kids how much you love them. (Unknown Unknown / The Spokesman-Review)
Create a Valentine’s Day heart-shaped box to hold surprise notes telling your kids how much you love them. (Unknown Unknown / The Spokesman-Review)

SANTIAGO, Chile – People are capable of doing many things for love. What Grace Guajardo did forced the evacuation of more than 300 people from a plane moments before takeoff.

Authorities say she phoned in a false bomb threat to keep her boyfriend from flying off to a new job. “I’m sorry, but I did it for love,” Guajardo said Monday after she was charged with making a false bomb threat.

Freed pending trial, she faces up to 61 days in jail if convicted. Prosecutors decided not to invoke the more severe anti-terrorism law after hearing the couple’s story.

What have you done for love?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.