Twitter users re-tweet Paul Chambers' "bomb threat": #IAmSpartacus
Paul Chambers is a Briton who, on hearing that his local airport was shut and that he'd miss a flight to see his girlfriend, tweeted "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!" Whereupon his house was raided by police who arrested him for making bomb threats.Chambers' case has been a cause celebre around the world, which watched in horror as two UK courts upheld Chambers' conviction for saying something that no reasonable person could possibly take as a serious threat. Now Twitter users are re-tweeting Chambers' fateful words, with the hashtag #IAmSpartacus, inviting law enforcement to arrest them, too, for their "threatening" behavior.
Meanwhile, Stephen Fry has offered to pay Chambers' fine.
Twitter anger over bomb tweeter (via /.)
(Image: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek - The Oath of Spartacus, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from govert1970's photostream)
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