Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 15, 2011 @08:19AM from the watch-how-you-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Under the banner headline 'Police reassure residents they are working to keep county safe,' Essex police proudly proclaimed that they arrested a 20-year-old man from Colchester who 'allegedly sent messages from a Blackberry encouraging people to join in a water fight.' Having also made a number of arrests of people sitting at home on Facebook, Acting Assistant Chief Constable Mason wrote: 'Police will continue to monitor social networking sites for unlawful activity.'" That's some good police work there, Lou.

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Just Protecting Him From Himself by WrongSizeGlass · 2011-08-15 08:21 · Score: 4, Funny

The police are just looking out for the man's interests. If he took his Blackberry to a water fight it could get wet and be ruined and it would just end in tears (which he would hide by getting wet again). They saved his Blackberry to tweet/text/post another day.