Man arrested as terrorist after Twitter joke2010-01-18 09:39 by DanielaTags: Twitter
Telling someone you're planning to blow up an airport is never a good idea, especially if the cops are listening in. So when a UK man tweeted to his friends that Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster was about to bite the big one, it should have come as no surprise that last week he was busted and interrogated for seven hours by anti-terror police. Paul Chambers wanted to fly to Ireland, but heavy snow meant his local airport was closed. In his frustration, he tweeted: "Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high." While his chums were no doubt wildly amused by his hilarious remark, the authorities were a tad more unsympathetic and lifted him under the Terrorism Act. And to add insult to injury, when the hapless Twitterer was released on bail, he was suspended from work pending an internal investigation, has been banned from Doncaster airport for life and the cops confiscated his iPhone, laptop and home computer. "I would never have thought, in a thousand years, that any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post," blubbed Chambers. "I'm the most mild-mannered guy you could imagine." Read more -here-
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