A man who posted a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport "sky high" has been found guilty of sending a menacing electronic communication.
Paul Chambers, 26, claimed he sent the Tweet in a moment of frustration after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow in January. A district judge ruled the Tweet was "of a menacing nature in the context of the times in which we live".
Chambers, of Balby, Doncaster, was fined £385 and told to pay £600 costs.
The Tweet he sent to his 600 "followers" in the early hours of 6 January said: "Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
The "context of the times we live in" is presumably that paranoia is now normal.
buckworks
5:43 pm on May 10, 2010 (gmt 0)
paranoia is now normal
An easy cure for that is to stop listening to the news.
bwnbwn
8:31 pm on May 10, 2010 (gmt 0)
Well think if this wasn't looked into and he did what he said he would do. No best thing to do is not spout off stupid stuff in the first place and especailly on the net.
I call this a du moment and one that should have been looked into.
claus
10:08 pm on May 10, 2010 (gmt 0)
Seriously? What country was that in - North Korea?
That sounds not only paranoid but so silly I would laugh if it wasn't for the deep tragedy of it all
walkman
5:15 pm on May 11, 2010 (gmt 0)
2 second anger = life destroyed
graeme_p
6:38 am on May 12, 2010 (gmt 0)
@buckworks, the problem is that I cannot stop everyone else listening to the news.
Incidentally, another guy in Britain had the police force their way into his house and and arrest him for putting up a poster of David Cameron (the new prime minister) with the word "#*$!" underneath it.
