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Brit arrested under Terrorism Act over airport Twitter joke | A British man landed in jail under the Terrorism Act
after jokingly threatening to blow up Doncaster airport in his Twitter post. Paul
Chambers was taken into custody on suspicion of conspiring to create a bomb hoax
and was quizzed for seven hours. "I had to explain Twitter to them in its entirety
because they'd never heard of it. Then they asked all about my home life, and
how work was going, and other personal things," the Telegraph quoted him as telling
the Independent. He added: "I would never have thought, in a thousand years, that
any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post. I'm the most mild-mannered
guy you could imagine." The 26-year-old, out on bail, was apparently also issued
with a life ban from the airport. Chambers, who was due to travel to Ireland on
January 15, joked on Twitter that he would blow the airport "sky high" if his
flight was delayed over snowfall. He posted on January 6: "Robin Hood airport
is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm
blowing the airport sky high!!" But the comment seemingly failed to tickle the
funny bones of the authorities who arrived at his doorstep on January 13. Chambers
said: "My first thought upon hearing it was the police was that perhaps a member
of my family had been in an accident. "Then they said I was being arrested under
the Terrorism Act and produced a piece of paper. It was a print-out of my Twitter
page. That was when it dawned on me." |
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