If my browsing speed doesn’t improve soon, I’m going to fly a plane into the internet. Don’t pretend you weren’t warned.
Just joking! But a reader emails me a warning that if you live in Britain, you’d better be careful with stuff like this. Paul Chambers was arrested last month for twittering a not dissimilar joke:
Yesterday, the court heard that the message read: “Crap! 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!”
Rob Desira, prosecuting, told the court: “The message was posted on the Twitter social networking site. He admitted posting the message into the public domain but never intended the message to be received by the airport or for them to take it seriously.”
….After his arrest, Chambers was suspended from work pending an internal investigation. Detectives also confiscated his iPhone, laptop and home computer….”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.”
OK, maybe it was a dumb thing to do. But arrested, suspended from work, laptop and phone confiscated, and now facing possible jail time? Come on.
