Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Neil McArdle, the Bomb-Hoax Groom

Here's one that sounds like the plot line to a bad romantic comedy...

On his wedding day, Neil McArdle really, really couldn't face telling his fiancé he had forgotten to fill out the necessary forms for their marriage to take place. We've all been there - someone hands you a pile of papers and you shove them into a corner to do "later." Unfortunately, Mr. McArdle realized just the day before his nuptials that his betrothed would be parading around in a wedding dress for a wedding that had never been scheduled. As he saw it, the panicked groom had two options: confess he had botched the reservation and the wedding had to be postponed...or, call in a bomb scare at the marriage venue to buy time!  

Neil went with the bomb scare plan, which in retrospect, was a bad idea.  He's just now been released after spending a year in jail. The employees of St. George's Hall in Liverpool, where he should have been married, were utterly terrified after being told a deadly bomb would explode in forty-five minutes, and the authorities were definitely not amused. The one person who has forgiven Neil, however, is his fiancé, who stuck with him through the whole ordeal. It makes me wonder: is it possible she reacted more favorably to her husband-to-be being thrown in jail than she would have to learning he had forgotten to fill out the wedding forms?









Groom jailed over wedding day bomb hoax to try to prevent bride discovering failure to confirm venue

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