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Does Fake LaGuardia Bomber Have Ties To Penn?

Julia Rubin Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009Sun, Aug 2, 2009

Yesterday morning Scott McGann tried to board a United Airlines flight bound for Chicago at New York's LaGuardia Airport...with a fake bomb in his bag. McGann, who officials say was "highly intoxicated," was immediately arrested and ordered to receive a psychiatric evaluation.

As if this wasn't alarming enough, an eagle-eyed tipster clued us in to a disturbing fact: McGann was photographed wearing a College House t-shirt at the time of the incident. The shirt celebrates the 10th anniversary of campus-wide College Houses, which occurred this past school year. It is unclear what the 32-year-old's connection is to Penn, as a Penn Directories search and a dig through the DP archives turned up nothing.

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