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Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter
An anonymous reader writes "A British man was arrested under anti-terrorism legislation for making a bomb joke on Twitter. Paul Chambers, 26, was arrested under the provisions of the Terrorism Act (2006). His crime? Frustrated at grounded flights over inclement weather, he made a joke bomb threat on the social networking site Twitter."
If there's one thing I hate it's ignorant yanks misquoting "Remember Remember" because they only know the idiot film version.
You say, "the terrorists won" when things like this happen. But to me, it sounds like most of you are on the same side as them. So quick to bash the security agencies, when you all should be having a little more concern over your own thoughts. This was obviously a lack of common sense on the poster's part. You don't honestly believe that a bomb threat that sounds legitimate would be simply ignored, do you? If you think bomb threats should be ignored, then you're on the wrong side.
We live in different times now, get used to it. Your days of making jokes at the taxpayer's expense are over, and the sooner you all get the message the better. I'm not keen on the public paying for this kind of crap when that money could instead be used towards education... something most of you apparently need.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
This is a lesson in appropriate literalism for this chap, isn't it? When you have the urge to scream something at the top of your lungs in the town square, you'd bloody well better make certain there's no room for misinterpretation, not to mention readiness to own those utterances, eh? When has that EVER not been good advice? Whether there's a real threat of a Big Brother in U.K. or not, this is just a story about a thoughtless wanker who likes to spout off in places that aren't very private, and he's learned the possible consequences of his spouting being misunderstood. This is really not so different from, say, Don Imus in USA making racist remarks on the radio; Imus got smacked around hard for being a thoughtless wanker and lost his job, too, and he was a bit more influential than this chap.
duh, what are you thinking?