Twitter joke led to police arrest and airport life ban.

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Dude got arrested + Banned from the airport for life for fucking tweeting.......

Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban - Home News, UK - The 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.".....


First we have the case of Vikram Buddhi in America, and now this.
 
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rogerrabbit said:
He got what he deserved. You dont fuck around with shit like that
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You don't think there was a teensy-weensy element of COMPLETE FUCKING OVERREACTION?

I detest my country these days, you'd think for a nation that endured the Blitz and the IRA we'd have a reasonable sense of proportion.
 
Over reaction? Possibly - hear out my reasoning.

If you don't have the judgement not to say that on twitter, you might not have the judgement to actually do it.

I think he should have been arrested, and throughly investigated....but if he came back clean slapped on the wrist.
 
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well how many people are really shocked by this? Not me! It seems like once they took on this whole terrorist fight thing, once the government ran out of real terrorist to go after we should have known they would have just carried on taking after people that are really no threat to any one but themselves. Yea he should have been arrested and questioned but that should have been the extent of it. But like all else they always seem to go beyond the bounds of decency.
 
At first they came for the Jews and I did not twitter about it, cause I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the gypsies and I still didn't twitter about it, then they came for the gays (and ok I kinda twitted about it cause that was hilarious!) but then they came for me and there was no one left to twitter to.
 
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turbolapp said:
At first they came for the Jews and I did not twitter about it, cause I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the gypsies and I still didn't twitter about it, then they came for the gays (and ok I kinda twitted about it cause that was hilarious!) but then they came for me and there was no one left to twitter to.
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Haha that is some clever ish. I read a African poem recently that was like that, you don't know it do you? Have been trying to find it.
 
In this instance, it's not so much the government (top-down) as it is the individuals working for the government.

Nobody simply wants to take on the responsibility of "not doing everything they could", just for the sake of covering their own ass.

Somebody called in and complained about it. After that point, no single official wanted to risk his career and stop the process citing that it's obviously no big deal.

Imagine yourself being the officer/agent in whatever department getting a complaint about that tweet. Are you going to risk your career over some jackass stranger even though it's obvious to you that the threat is not real or will you do the safe (for yourself) thing and pass it higher up? So you pass it up in hopes that someone else will deal with it.

And this cycle repeats on every level.

If you think that's bad, you have no idea how bad things get when shit really moves to the "next level" -- when the government employees begin to actually fear for their own life and freedom if they don't act as swiftly and decisively as the can. That's when the real bad stuff start to happen. Hopefully, it won't happen to the USA, because at that point there won't be turning back.

And all the people that whine about the police state will see what a real police state looks like.
 
bcc423 said:
Somebody called in and complained about it. After that point, no single official wanted to risk his career and stop the process citing that it's obviously no big deal.
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No one called in and complained about it. Authorities constantly monitor internet communications mediums for shit like this. If you were to yell that out in the airport you'd be banned for life just the same. Yelling it out to hundreds or thousands of people on the internet isn't looked at as being much different.
 
It doesn't matter how it got into the system by someone reporting or by scanning. The point is once the government is "looking into" your case, nobody wants to risk their jobs.

The safest thing for any officer/agent to do is to "pass it upstairs".
 
Im from Doncaster!

I couldn't give a shit what he tweeted, even if he said it whilst i was IN the airport ..!

I allways have fucked up thoughts, doesn't mean im gunna do what im thinking .. even the president has fucked up thoughts, everyone does ... they say they have top class security, but they are shit scare of A FUCKING TWEET!

Its a load of bollocks
 
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Jukey123 said:
Im from Doncaster!

I couldn't give a shit what he tweeted, even if he said it whilst i was IN the airport ..!

I allways have fucked up thoughts, doesn't mean im gunna do what im thinking .. even the president has fucked up thoughts, everyone does ... they say they have top class security, but they are shit scare of A FUCKING TWEET!

Its a load of bollocks
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LMFAO REP+
 
How did the government know it was a joke? What if it's a riddle? Or a ironic musing? How about a BOMB ANECDOTE. /george carlin
 
People need to realise that just because it's the internet doesn't mean it's not real. A lot of people think that internet is some virtual cyberspace where everything they say gets lost and can't be tracked.

People need more education on media in general.
 
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