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Twitter user convicted after 'menacing' message

article published on 10 May, 2010

UK citizen Paul Chambers has been convicted this week of sending a 'menacing' tweet via Twitter, with the British Court fining him £1000 and slapping him with a criminal record. In early January, the airport in South Yorkshire was closed due to excessive snow and Chambers was so mad that he wrote: "Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your s*** together ... [ read the full article ]

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xaosai
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_ 		10. May 2010 @ 23:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the inner troll strikes again
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Josipher
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_ 		10. May 2010 @ 23:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"sir i was just tweeting,thats not a crime is it?!"
"well as it turns out it is richards,your fired."
WHOOPS
:)
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NHS2008
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_ 		11. May 2010 @ 02:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Time to delete some of tweets!
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crunk15
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_ 		11. May 2010 @ 03:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
stupid!
i hate the world. do i get arrested 2?
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Mysttic
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_ 		11. May 2010 @ 10:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And anyone who tweets, chances are has been on the net, also should realize that people need to be more and more careful at what they say in public be it in person/cellular messaging/internet or otherwise. He would lose this appeal if he tried, as people just take bomb threats too seriously now after 911.
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SmOkM
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_ 		11. May 2010 @ 16:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
he clearly shouldn't have posted it, but there is a balance issue for me as regards marking him for life



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xboxdvl2
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_ 		12. May 2010 @ 01:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
he shouldn't of posted it but he was obviously angry and posting out of anger not criminal intent.Dont know if temporary insainity holds up in court or not and sometimes you say things in anger that you don't actually mean.
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adamryan
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Simple problem easily avoided. Just make profile private.
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