For two days, I’ve been ruefully chuckling at the headline “Man who didn’t want to look after girlfriend’s pet sent bomb threat to cruise she was on”. It’s just such a hilariously out-of-proportion response to something that is barely a problem!

Joshua Lowe, from Michigan, admitted that he was annoyed that he had to watch pets while his partner and her family went on a Caribbean cruise, leading him to take drastic measures.

Specifically, those drastic measures were an email that said “Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.” That email was traced back to him pretty readily.

Assistant US Attorney Nils Kessler said: “FBI agents traced the email address to Lowe, who was living with his girlfriend’s family,” Kessler said.

What do you bet that Lowe was living there rent-free?