Ford – like many companies that operate out of physical locations – has faced its fair share of bomb threats over the years, which have luckily been pure hoaxes, for the most part. However, these types of threats are still taken seriously, and for good reason, given the fact that an actual bomb being set off in a busy building full of people would constitute a tragedy, and those that make bomb threats often face lengthy prison sentences as a result. Now, police are looking for yet another man that threatened to bomb a Ford owned facility.
That man – William Hebner of Louisville, Kentucky, made the threat via a comment left on one of Ford’s social media accounts, according to WHAS 11 news. “After waiting for two years on June the 2nd for my retirement, I’m pretty sure I’m going to bomb the (expletive) building the people that you outsourced my retirement to,” Hebner wrote. Police noted that Hebner either retired from his position at Ford or quit and was “likely upset for not receiving his stock cash out” from the company.
Police have issued a warrant for Hebner’s arrest after he failed to appear in Jefferson County District Court, but haven’t disclosed which Ford facility he threatened to bomb. As of now, he’s being charged with felony terroristic threatening, however.
This is just one of several bomb threats that Ford has dealt with in recent history, as two were received at the under-construction BlueOval SK Battery Park site in Kentucky. The first came via a note written on a portable toilet inspection sheet that indicated there was a bomb on the premises, or more specifically, the plant itself. The note stated that the bomb was set to go off at 1pm that same day, though that didn’t happen. The second bomb threat was also written and left in a port-a-potty at the site, too.
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