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Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter

Posted by timothy on from the credibility-gap-looms dept.

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."

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  1. Nobody in here make any cracks by fotoguzzi · · Score: 5, Funny

    We don't want to get slashdot in trouble.

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    1. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks by RotateLeftByte · · Score: 4, Funny

      Naturally, it was 'The Spanish Inquisition' whom nobody expects....

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    2. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'll come in again.

    3. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't antropomorphize airports. They don't usually tell it to your face but they really don't like it.

    4. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Depends on the airport. I was once told by an airport to get lost. When I refused to comply, it made my luggage do what it couldn't make me do.

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    5. Re:Nobody in here make any cracks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't know how these guys stayed out of jail.

  2. Re:Gah by draco664 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just be sure not to send a note to all the Catholic MPs beforehand. No good deed goes unpunished.

  3. Why do British police go about in threes? by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stolen from the comments in the Independent: Why do British police go about in threes? One can read, one can write, the other keeps an eye on the 2 dangerous subversive intellectuals.

    Seems appropriate. Although I would say that French police aren't any better, they just go about in pairs.

  4. Re:VERY slow response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but he declared that the bomb would go off in a week and a half time, so the police put him on the low-priority list

  5. Re:I have a solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All it needs is a couple million people in every country posting every day the same identical message on every board in the planet.
    Good luck arresting them all.

    First post?

  6. Re:Gah by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could always ask him.

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  7. There's a bomb in this message. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This message will explode in 30 seconds!

  8. Re:I'm not convinced the police was wrong here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's from the UK and has a mum, not a mom.

  9. Re:Living in fear by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well done on inflating the situation.

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  10. Re:I'm not convinced the police was wrong here by MrHanky · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, it sounds unmistakably like a joke, and the fact that you and three Slashdot moderators think otherwise is simply an indication of the high occurence of autism on this site.

  11. Re:Typical.. by dakameleon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm s clod, you insensitive plod*!

    *(british slang)

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  12. Re:What part of "use a proxy" can't he understand? by JustOK · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, you're saying the Chinese are behind all this?

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  13. Hooray! by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Funny

    The terrorists have finally succeeded in making it possible to arrest someone for being an idiot! Maybe there's a silver lining to this cloud....

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  14. Bash.org reference by da5idnetlimit.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    #88575 +(9158)- [X]

      I should bomb something ...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
      Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
      I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
    *** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
      We saw it anyway.
    *** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )

    http://www.bash.org/?88575

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