Would you believe this moron

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AIRHEAD ADMITS THREAT

By KATE SHEEHY

February 8, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE

A dimwitted teen phoned in a terrifying bomb threat to LaGuardia Airport - forcing panicked passengers to evacuate a plane - so she could buy herself time to get on the flight to avoid an explosive love triangle.

Airheaded Anna Tarasov, 19, admitted to The Post yesterday that she came up with the scheme because the subway made her late for her impending flight from New York to Georgia to confront a jealous boyfriend.

"I remember thinking it wouldn't be such a big deal. It totally slipped my mind about the terrorists," the red-faced teen said. "Then it hit me. 'Of all the places. This is New York.' It was very stupid."

Authorities say the incident unfolded around 6:40 p.m. Nov. 4, when Tarasov used her cellphone to make the bogus threat — "that two passengers possessed bombs" on AirTran Flight 1775 — to the airline's reservation center.

Tarasov was rushing to the Queens airport to try to board the flight, which was scheduled to depart for Atlanta at 6:40 p.m.

Tarasov's then-boyfriend was in Atlanta, where she has relatives. But Tarasov told authorities that she feared her jealous beau might try to board a flight from Atlanta to Minnesota, where her former loverboy lives.

"She said she was attempting to board [a flight] to Georgia because she wanted to intercept her boyfriend . . . who she believed was planning to fly from Georgia to Minnesota to confront . . . a former boyfriend," according to a complaint tied to the warrant issued for her arrest last week.

The plane was already on the runway when the flighty teen allegedly phoned in her threat.

The aircraft was forced to return to the gate, where jittery passengers were unloaded and screened while Port Authority cops with bomb-sniffing dogs searched the plane.

Tarasov said she was so late that she still missed the flight, even with the delay.

The FBI quickly traced the threatening call to Tarasov's cellphone.

Tarasov, who says her real name is Erin Barasov, grew up in Minnesota but had been living with friends for five months in Manhattan when the incident occurred.

She now lives in Atlanta — and said she isn't seeing either man now.

Although a warrant for her arrest has been issued, Tarasov said she has been in touch with authorities and they said they "will try to work everything out here in Atlanta."

"All I can say is it was a dumb mistake," Tarasov said.

"I wasn't thinking straight at the moment. I was only thinking about how to get" to Georgia.

kate.sheehy@nypost.com

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I hope everyone involved in this tries to file a lawsuit against that dumb, self-absorbed bitch.