Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Man Arrested For Twitter 'Joke' Convicted

Making bomb threats against an airport is not funny, even if you tweet it. Paul Chambers found that out the hard way after he was arrested and then convicted of sending a threatening message in England.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FK4C9O0&show_article=1

"A British man who said on Twitter that he would blow up an airport if his flight was delayed by snow was convicted Monday of sending a threatening message and fined more than 1,000 pounds ($1,500).

Paul Chambers, 26, insisted his post on the micro-blogging site was a joke. But a judge at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in northern England found him guilty of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message over a public telecommunications network.

District Judge Jonathan Bennett said the message "was of a menacing nature in the context of the times in which we live." He ordered Chambers to the fine and court costs.
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1 comment:

  1. Now let me guess,He wasn't a muslim!!! Now how did I guess that he wasn't a protected species???

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