Say What?!

         Paul Chambers, who was a 28-year-old trainee account, was getting ready to fly to Northern Ireland to see his girlfriend when Robin Hood airport closed due to snow. He then tweeted to his 690 followers, “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!” A week later, he was arrested for allegedly posing a threat to the airport. This was a bad joke, and thousands of twitter users supported him and participated in a chain asking for his release from prison.

My VIEW:

Okay, the law is taking this WAY too far! All he wanted to do was tweet a joke, not get arrested or actually bomb the airport.  I think that the police officers who arrested him were a bit too sensitive and the whole situation got completely out of hand. I’m sure there are thousands of “bad jokes” posted on twitter, and he was just one of the many. If he really wanted to bomb the airport, he wouldn’t have posted it on twitter for the public to see or leave his contact details out in the open. Twitter is full of bad jokes, and it is a website where everyone is allowed to have a voice. That post was his voice speaking out to his followers. I mean, c’mon, If you can’t have a voice on twitter, then what’s the point of having twitter? I get that the joke maybe went a bit too far, but it should not lead to time in prison. All I know is, just watch what you say on twitter, or the internet in general, and be careful because that could have been any of you!