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'Personal Grievance' Prompts Oregon Man To Tell Airports Relatives Are Terrorists

The 38-year-old was angry about being excluded from a family wedding and is now facing up to two years in prison for the pranks.
A disgruntled Oregon man got his father and brother detained on their way to a family wedding by falsely reporting they were terrorists.

Tensions can run high around family weddings, but an Oregon man took his resentment to new heights when he made two phone calls to airports falsely

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