The HKDL Source

 

Reprinted from India eNews (Originally appearing in the South China Morning Post):

 

Hairdresser Lo Kam-lok, 22, posted the threats on an online forum using the name 'Hezbollah terrorist' and asking for advice on how to make his own bombs, the South China Morning Post reported.

 

Lo's message in August last year received 19 replies over the following month, including one that contained a bomb-making recipe, a magistrates' court hearing was told Friday.

 

When the message was reported to police, Disneyland was forced to mount a search and stepped up security at its $3.5 billion Hong Kong theme park.

 

Police mounted an investigation that took 213 men, costing 32,500 Hong Kong dollars ($4,100) before arresting Lo at his home in Hong Kong's Kowloon Bay district.

 

Lo admitted wasting police time at Friday's hearing. He was released on bail pending sentencing June 22.

 

(Emphasis and commentary below added by HKDL Source)

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What is most surprising about this story is that we haven't heard about any other plots before. Any high profile place such as a Disney theme park is likely to be the target for such threats, regardless of whether they are real or not. Thankfully, in this case the threat was not a real one, but it would be interesting to know exactly what measures are in place for such a contingency.

 

It is interesting to note that the park was not closed at any point, as Disney parks around the world very rarely shut down. As you may recall, Disney closed down - or more precisely, didn't open -  the American theme parks in Anaheim and Florida on the morning of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The Japanese theme parks were threatened during the 2003 holiday season, according to Australia's ABC.

 

More recently, there was a great deal of media attention given to the Hamas Tv station Al-Aqsa TV, who reportedly used images of Mickey Mouse to push their own belief system. Disney did not "unleash the hounds", as Jim Hill aptly put it on his website, in that particular case.

 

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