{"id":6394,"date":"2010-11-16T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2010-11-16T08:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:29:41","slug":"it-was-such-an-urgent-threat-that-only-a-week-later-the-authorities-reacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/it-was-such-an-urgent-threat-that-only-a-week-later-the-authorities-reacted\/","title":{"rendered":"It was such an urgent threat that only a week later, the authorities reacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good round-up of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1330049\/Paul-Chambers-Twitter-bomb-joke-trial-thats-blown-justice-bits.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Twitter bomber&#8221; case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It all started with a moment of grumpy sarcasm on Twitter. Frustrated that his planned trip to Northern Ireland was put in jeopardy by heavy snow at Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, Mr Chambers whipped out his iPhone and posted the following message on the social networking site: \u2018C***! Robin Hood Airport closed. You have got a week to get your s*** together, otherwise I\u2019m blowing the airport sky high!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A week later, he was in a police \u00adstation being quizzed as a potential terrorist. He was eventually prosecuted under a law aimed at nuisance calls rather than under legislation for bomb hoaxes, which requires stronger evidence of intent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Chambers_Twitter_airport_threat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chambers_Twitter_airport_threat\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Chambers_Twitter_airport_threat.jpg 468w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Chambers_Twitter_airport_threat-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After all, it was plain as a pikestaff that Mr Chambers didn\u2019t have any intent to bomb anything at all. Even so, he was hauled before magistrates, found guilty of sending a menacing electronic communication and fined \u00a3385. A few days ago, Mr Chambers lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence.<\/p>\n<p>He will now have to pay \u00a32,600 legal costs as well. Judge Jacqueline \u00adDavies, who was sitting with two magistrates, ruled the tweet was \u2018menacing in its content and obviously so\u2019, claiming \u2018any ordinary person\u2019 would \u2018be alarmed\u2019 by it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good round-up of the &#8220;Twitter bomber&#8221; case: It all started with a moment of grumpy sarcasm on Twitter. Frustrated that his planned trip to Northern Ireland was put in jeopardy by heavy snow at Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, Mr Chambers whipped out his iPhone and posted the following message on the social networking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,10],"tags":[52,343,186,98,257,202,310],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-liberty","tag-absurd","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-police","tag-terrorism","tag-travel","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6396,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}