Man Charged With Terroristic Threats, Risking a Castrophe Following South Hills Village Bomb Scare

The Bethel Park Police Department has charged a Castle Shannon man with making terroristic threats, threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and causing or risking a catastrophe following a bomb threat at South Hills Village Sunday.

All of the charges against Frank Zahler, 70, are felonies.

Zahler is accused of making a bomb threat at the Barnes & Noble at South Hills Village Sunday night and reportedly blames his arrest on "hoity, toity kids," according to the AP.

Police say he asked some other customers to watch his briefcase and joked it contained some explosives relating to the Boston Marathon. The customers alerted the manager, who then called police.

The Bethel Park the movie theater and surrounding restaurants.

"In my day, we would have laughed it off, you know? There's no hope," Zahler told reporters, according to the AP.

The image of Zahler comes from WPXI.