Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

There is an unofficial Evil Internet 'category' when posting some type of news articles to funsec, but this doesn't 
belong to this category:

"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."
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-joke-led-to-terror-act-arrest-and-airport-life-ban-1870913.html

Juha-Matti
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