By jules on Mon Jan 18 2010
Just demonstrate, that the police’s got absolutely no clue where to start, and what to look at at when it comes to such treats… So find anything, anyone…
By David on Mon Jan 18 2010
The terrorists have won. We’re afraid of our own shadows.
By Not Important on Mon Jan 18 2010
Pretty soon, if you fart at an airport, it would be equivalent to releasing dangerous flammable gas in a public area and a punishable offense.
By Foobar Baz on Mon Jan 18 2010
1984.
By mafia man on Mon Jan 18 2010
This guys a real twit!
By Anonymous on Mon Jan 18 2010
Another example of the death of common sense,
By doh on Mon Jan 18 2010
I bet they would of just let it slide if the poster was from another country, how many thousands of posts like this do people make a day on forums, news groups, irc, etc.
Really stupid of the police to single one man out for what is obviously a joke.
I’d like to see what happens if just out of anger ppl start posting the exact same twitter line everywhere they can possible think of
By ZanRei on Mon Jan 18 2010
I hate to side with the police on this one (God help me) but they’re right. A bit extreme in their response of a seven hour questioning session, perhaps, but right. This sort of speech has long been held up as not under the protection of the First Amendment in America, and the police following up on any sort of bomb threat at a specific location by an individual is reasonable. I’m sorry for Mr. Chamber’s impending difficulties in terms of his job and travel, but sometimes you just have to use discretion.
By Baldguy on Mon Jan 18 2010
Time for Amtrak to expand. I won’t fly now unless there’s absolutely no other way to get there. This is total crap, terrorists can smuggle aboard anything they like, citizens are treated like criminals.
I fully expect a midnight banging on the door by the authorities for this potentially threatening post…
By Ciaran on Mon Jan 18 2010
It would be interesting to see a pole conducted where the question was, “who are you most afraid of?” ... “(A) the terrorists, or (B) the police.”
By DSDW on Mon Jan 18 2010
Good.
Bomb threats aren’t really the kind of think one should joke about… when was that ever OK? I feel sorry for the guy but one has to learn some lessons the hard way I guess… what does it take for people learn that the such comments are PUBLIC, not your living room or your little circle of friends? Would you shout a bomb threat “joke” from the top of a mountain and expect that everyone will just chuckle?
Personally the one bureaucracy I don’t mind not having a sense of humor is the police. It’s all fun and games till someone’s joke has just too large a kernel of truth… and seriously… the guy got off with a grueling interview and a lifetime ban from an airport…
who wants to hang out in those places anyways???
By Nathan on Mon Jan 18 2010
So the police got to hang out in a warm interview room for several hours instead of doing any work…. there’s a shock! Could they come up with any other ways of wasting my money!
By Kermode on Mon Jan 18 2010
Well the Fascist States of Europe are progressing according to plan.
No wonder those rent-a-cops never catch anyone, they are too stupid to do that.
By Sam on Mon Jan 18 2010
No surprise here. This has been a long standing policy at airports. You don’t need to blame 9/11 legislation.
All that has changed is the medium, and to tell the truth: if I received that twit, er, I mean tweet, I would probably report it and I would expect him to be picked up.
Oh, and the punishment has real teeth now. Used to be they would spend some time checking you out and after your day was completely ruined, you would get let go. Now you can be fined and jailed much more easily.
Stupid stupid to make a bomb joke and not funny at all.
By b4nd0ler0 on Mon Jan 18 2010
More security theater bullshit. This is pathetic really. You can’t say anything bad about an airport, we’re screwed little cowards.
By Anonymouse on Mon Jan 18 2010
RETWEET!!
By Martin on Mon Jan 18 2010
I can imagine a million people more mild-manner than this fool. I also feel sorry for baldguy, living his life in irrational fear. :(
By The Fezz on Mon Jan 18 2010
Ih well then! If the police in the US would do the same then it’s a completely reasonable response! FFS ZanRei the guy was obviously venting his frustration and cops are suppose to have a bit of cop on about them.
By rbot on Mon Jan 18 2010
What kind of terrorists are going to publicly joke about their plans on twitter? You’d have to be completely daft (or a paid shill) to think this action is in any way justified.
By ceb on Mon Jan 18 2010
I’m neither daft nor a shill.
It’s the cry of the ignorant to assume anyone who doesn’t agree with them is “daft”. It’s also clearly beyond your grasp to understand the implications and complexities beyond this specific case.
By Carter Cole on Mon Jan 18 2010
so on one side i feel for they guy its total bs that they would harass him once he makes a comment like that and they find it isn’t real but cmon… why would you tell them so they can get ready? that just doesn’t make sense. i was suspended from when i said “oh no theres a bomb in the closet” and they said i made a bomb threat… its obvious that i was joking but i was suspended none the less because some kids walking by were scared… i feel like the police are making an example of him but really in this climate you shouldn’t make any comments like that but my question is how did the cops find out? i mean stop playing on twitter and tweeting about people who got DUIs to try and shame them and go catch bad guys…
i respect the police and they do a very important service but cmon
By Paul on Mon Jan 18 2010
Okay, bomb jokes are stupid. It is stupid to “joke” that you are going to kill someone or beat someone up. Or rape them, or call for them to be raped.
After all, the raping thing is done by anyone who says, “f* you” or the like.
But should these things be against the law?
I am exceedingly tired of “Security Theater” designed to make people into criminals without any proof that it makes any of us safer.
Is there any studies that show terrorists are more prone to joke about bombs than non-terrorists? Jokes about bombs in a security line might confuse security personnel trying to do a particular job (so you have an obvious reason to act), but seriously, why pay any attention at all to jokes on twitter?
Talk to the guy….. maybe! But you can’t take everything someone tweets literally. I certainly hope nobody combs through everything I have ever said and prosecutes me for everything based on this standard.
By Paulo Marques on Mon Jan 18 2010
Please, by all means, keep making sure I’ll never visit you totalitarian country. I might forget how police has free will to do whatever the hell it pleases, though after Menezes’ death, that’s doubtfull.
I have a feeling I won’t miss much if everyone’s this sheepish.
Oh, and BTW, I do hope they bomb whoever come up with these policies, maybe we can go back to sanity.
By Nightwish on Mon Jan 18 2010
Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gun powder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
By dj on Mon Jan 18 2010
The words “blowing the airport sky-high” do not necessarily imply the use of explosive force. It could literally mean to elevate the structure with a powerful gust of wind. I might want to “get a shot of the president” with my trusty new camera. That does not mean I want him assassinated.
By Dunex on Mon Jan 18 2010
Stupid joke and pathetic reaction from the police.
*two finger salute*
By JJ on Mon Jan 18 2010
What if he meant he wanted to give fellatio to the airport?
By allahuhakbarmyass on Mon Jan 18 2010
If he isn’t a MUSLIM then they had no reason to arrest him.
Unless they want to completely ignore almost ALL acts of terrorism over the past 50 years. I think they do.
By rbot on Mon Jan 18 2010
Ruin a person’s life over a blatantly obvious (and stupid) joke is the height of ignorance. There really is no excuse on anyone’s part—we choose to create and propagate the type of society we live in. To those that think this is justified, may the hammer fall on you the hardest the day you make some silly mistake or slip of the tongue.
By nelle gilmore on Tue Jan 19 2010
Since Terrorists have no trouble blowing them selves up it seems to me anyone who would joke about it doesn’t understand that no one should joke about it. It’s the wrong thing to joke about because how else can one deal with Terrorists? It was that lack of diligence that allowed 9/11 to occur.
Terrorists have found a powerful and effective way of fighting and “winning” against a much bigger and more powerful foe. It just isn’t something people should joke about. How are the police to be so smart to tell who is or isn’t a Terrorist?
The police are damned if they do and damned if they don’t!
But, at no time is it proper to joke about violence.
One may not agree with this, and may even think police are stupid, but how can one tell if a joke is a joke?
Please don’t hesitate to tell how this is wrong. I like find such folly amusing and would like to read it! For it illustrates that there is always some warped person that seems to be joking but isn’t!
By Paul on Tue Jan 19 2010
nelle gilmore,
You are exactly right when you say “The police are damned if they do and damned if they don’t”....
I appreciate the fact that you think terrorist jokes are not funny. But the terrorists on 9/11 didn’t joke about what they were going to do. Thus condemning a guy who tweeted a joke hasn’t anything to do with the “lack of diligence that allowed 9/11 to occur.”
Terrorists *have* found an effective way of fighting and “winning” against a more powerful foe. They have us ruining the lives of our own perfectly innocent citizens over jokes.
“One may not agree with this, and may even think police are stupid, but how can one tell if a joke is a joke?” Well, that is a problem, isn’t it? If we suppress all conversation of this sort, publicly crucifying anyone that tweets anything that sounds like it could be a threat, how exactly does that make us safer?
Isn’t making us safer what the police are *trying* to do? Or are they simply supposed to suppress any conversation about threats?
IF the police are really trying to make us safer, then why are they pressing so hard to suppress any and all jokes about bombs in any form of conversation (i.e. Tweeter in this case)? Wouldn’t this suppress all conversations about bombs by EVERYONE, which would INCLUDE the terrorists?
I can understand why you don’t joke about bombs in the security line, because it can distract security people from their job. But that isn’t the case on Tweeter where one assumes the police are simply trying to look for hints and clues something is going to happen. It is like the police are BROADCASTING to terrorists everywhere that the police are listening?
After a stupid stunt like this, who is left for the police to listen to?
By A. nnonymous on Tue Jan 19 2010
That’ll teach him to behave. I hope they wacked him good hehe.
By Mike on Tue Jan 19 2010
Yes, because banning someone from an airport who was clearly joking is a reasonable response/punishment. If it truly was illegal, I’m sure if they said “Hey, don’t do that again, it’s against the law” it would have had just as much weight behind it. Not to mention banning him from an airport doesn’t do jack to keep the offense from happening again… it occurred on Twitter! But so much for common sense.
By Patrick on Wed Jan 20 2010
Fucking morons..
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