Groom Who Made Idiotic Wedding Day Bomb Threat Sentenced to Jail
Remember Neil McArdle, the Liverpool groom who called in a bomb
threat to cover up that he'd forgotten to book his wedding venue
until the day of his wedding? Well, things are not going so well
for ol' Neil right now — earlier today, a judge at Liverpool
Crown Court sentenced McArdle to one year in jail for the poorly
thought-out hoax. (And he would have gotten away with it, too,
if it weren't for his own meddling stupidity!)  It wasn't enough
that the judge simply convict McArdle — he also had to publicly
shame him for his initial failure to schedule his own nuptials,
saying:  "She was getting ready, expecting you were going to be
man and wife and a very solemn public event in her life and you
knew that was not going to take place. You did not say 'We need
to talk.' You tried to weasel your way out by creating a bomb
hoax so the wedding would not take place."   Prosecutor Derek
Jones, clearly feeling bad for Dummy McArdle, pointed out that
"he