Broadcast reruns repeatedly triggered identical real-world extortion attempts

Evidence

Western Airlines paid 25,000 to an extortionist in Anchorage the day after the rerun was shown. A San Francisco rerun was followed by an extortion threat to a United Airlines flight to Hawaii. The extortionist was apprehended as he picked up the money package dropped from a helicopter. National Airlines experienced an extortion attempt the day after the rerun in Miami, but the extortionist did not show up to collect the 200,000 he had demanded. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 736

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 736