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Title: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: Barry Scott on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 09:47:38 Embarrassing British over reaction. Laughable and ludicrous in equal measure.
Quote from: Independent When heavy snowfall threatened to scupper Paul Chambers's travel plans, he decided to vent his frustrations on Twitter by tapping out a comment to amuse his friends. "Robin Hood airport is closed," he wrote. "You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" Unfortunately for Mr Chambers, the police didn't see the funny side. A week after posting the message on the social networking site, he was arrested under the Terrorism Act and questioned for almost seven hours by detectives who interpreted his post as a security threat. After he was released on bail, he was suspended from work pending an internal investigation, and has, he says, been banned from the Doncaster airport for life. "I would never have thought, in a thousand years, that any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post," said Mr Chambers, 26. "I'm the most mild-mannered guy you could imagine." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-joke-led-to-terror-act-arrest-and-airport-life-ban-1870913.html Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: Bob's Orange on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 09:51:45 A very eye opening piece. I had no idea that there was an airport in Doncaster.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: china red on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 11:05:43 This is truly ridiculous.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: RedRag on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 11:08:28 Pretty ludicrous....wonder what the xtra-normal Gary Ablett on the Pericard sketch will get then?
obscure northern airport blow a weedy "sky-high" job suspension & 7 hours with old bill cunting magic roundabout smash into "space" bring back capital punishment, I say Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: genf_stfc on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 11:31:07 terror threat level raised today to blind panic for "no specific reason" - spreading a bit of fear around before the election, or blair appearing at the chilcott enquiry, no doubt
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: BANGKOK RED on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 11:42:30 terror threat level raised today to blind panic for "no specific reason" - spreading a bit of fear around before the election, or blair appearing at the chilcott enquiry, no doubt Or perhaps there is a genuine cause for concern, particularly after the failed attempt on an American airline at Christmas. Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: reeves4england on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 14:34:46 Just to play devil's advocate, if this guy had gone back a week later and blown the place up there'd be outrage that the police didn't act
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: Barry Scott on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 15:25:55 You're right. I think there's so much fear of fucking up and someone taking the blame for something that everyone's always covering their arse with too much work.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: jayohaitchenn on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 15:36:30 It might be an over reaction, but it was a fucking stupid thing to say.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: yeo on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 18:44:35 1st TEFer to get arrested or sued for somthing they have said on Twitter gets £50
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: Nemo on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 18:45:54 CyberRobins had some very minor theft on Twitter, yet to have any legal repercussions from that mind.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: donkey on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 20:44:04 I'll staple your mouth shut for that...
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: pauld on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10:14:14 There was a thing on the radio last night about two kids' TV presenters being nicked on the South Bank for filming a sketch in which they "fired" at each other with blue spangly hair driers. Just stupid. The government have given the police too many powers under the guise of "anti-terror" laws and, wholly predictably, the coppers have let it go to their heads and are now roundly abusing those powers. Both need reining in.
Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: china red on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10:20:26 1st TEFer to get arrested or sued for somthing they have said on Twitter gets £50 What's Twitter? Title: Re: Twitter joke leads to arrest under Terrorism act and lifetime airport ban! Post by: leefer on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10:22:49 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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