Blogger Arrested Over Twit Tweet
Tweeting is not without its dangers it seems. 
Mild mannered ( his words) blogger , Paul Chambers twerped out some words on the internationally famous social networking site Twitter and was later unhappy to hear a knock on his door from Law Enforcement and Anti Terrorist Agencies.
“My first thought upon hearing it was the police was that perhaps a member of my family had been in an accident,” PaulJChambers told The Independent.
Paul , 26 , was arrested under the Terrorism Act on suspicion of conspiring to create a bomb hoax and taken into police custody where he was questioned for seven hours. His Laptop , Home Computer and Iphone were all seized.
Presented with a printout of his Twitter page , the suspect realised his posting was what had brought the authorities to his front ( and back) door.
“I had to explain Twitter to them in its entirety because they’d never heard of it.”
Being unaware of Twitter is possibly the most incredible part of this saga.
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Paul has been warned he could face jail after admitting posting a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport “sky high”.
Paul Chambers posted the message online after snow forced Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to close.
Doncaster magistrates told him that all sentencing options, including custody, were being considered after his arrest for communicating a bomb hoax.
Paul, 26, of Byram Court in Balby, Doncaster, will be sentenced in March.
‘No airport impact’
The defendant was arrested after his message was reported to police.
He was later charged with sending, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
The court heard the message read: “Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”
Rob Desira, prosecuting, told the court: “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.”
Mr Desira said the message was picked up by routine investigations but had no impact on the airport, other than the expense and time taken for the investigation to be carried out.
Paul was granted unconditional bail until the sentencing hearing at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on 12 March.