Twitter posts bomb threats

[Kein]

Not really national news but could pretty easily be applied I guess? Anyways it seems twitter (lovely...) has blown up with a bunch of people threatening airlines about bombs. Some girl did it and went to prison and suddenly there was a big influx. I'll post in a little bit because I actually have mixed feelings on this. What do you guys think?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/sty ... -airlines/

[Everlong]

Wait wait wait... so a girl posts a bomb threat... goes to prison for it... and that makes it MORE popular to post bomb threats on Twitter? How stupid are these people?

I mean yeah, it's just kids being complete idiots, but they have to realize that there are consequences for their actions and that these airlines are legally required to take every threat seriously, even if it's not serious. This is a post 9/11 world, these kids need to grow the fuck up.

[ShaneOfan]

Wait wait wait... so a girl posts a bomb threat... goes to prison for it... and that makes it MORE popular to post bomb threats on Twitter? How stupid are these people?

I mean yeah, it's just kids being complete idiots, but they have to realize that there are consequences for their actions and that these airlines are legally required to take every threat seriously, even if it's not serious. This is a post 9/11 world, these kids need to grow the fuck up.

It could be people posting as their friends thinking it is funny.

When I was in high-school one of my friends who we will call "Seth's" brother had been murdered years before. Well another of my friends "Mike" somehow contacted the FBI via their website (I think that at the time you could report crimes online) and told them that a third friend "Phil Smith" was the one who did it. Normally it would take the FBI all of 15 minutes to realize that it is very unlikely a 5 year old murdered a 3 year old. BUT. "Phil Smith" is actually "Phil Smith III" so the FBI went to "Phil's" house and arrested his dad "Phil Jr." They tell "Phil Jr." why and he says that the murdered kid has the same last name as "Seth" a friend of his son. "So Phil III" gets yanked out of class and somehow they find out "Mike" was responsible... bricks were shat and while no charges were actually filled "Mike" could have gotten himself in trouble over a joke and damn near got "Phil Jr." in a LOT of trouble.

Moral of the story kids are stupid and don't think of consequences especially when trying to get their friends in trouble.

[CavingSiberian]

This is just dumb...who are these people who think copying this girl's threats is a good idea?

Sure it was a joke... I think most people could see that... but what do you think would have happened if everyone just laughed and ignored it? It would have been a bigger storm to deal with if something did happen to a plane... It's not something you should be able to joke about and be ignored. It's "Boy Cried Wolf" except the public would be in complete outrage if we ignored it and it actually happened....Unfortunately, even when it is an obvious joke, they are forced to take it seriously..

[Viazon]

Idiots. All I have to say.

[Kein]

There are definitely consequences for what people say, and more and more these days examples are showing. Gun threats, bomb threats, and such on social media are getting reported to authorities and people are getting in trouble. Some of them are warranted investigation, but some of them are also pretty outrageous, and totally blown out of proportion.

However I honestly don't think this is a "bunch of teenagers" thinking this is cool/popular. I think they are trying to ridicule that she got punished, and that she shouldn't have been. There's also no proof these tweets are all just kids, could be any age group.

I think she should definitely get punished because its no laughing matter, but at the same time I think the airport security is pretty ridiculous and a lot of these people probably think so too. 9/11 happened 13 years ago now, let's face it, a lot of people don't remember its impact, and even more people grew up not even knowing it happened. We are talking about college students these days who were 5 years old when this happened now... The effects of 9/11 is super sensitive and at the same time people are over it. Again, don't get me wrong, 9/11 or not a bomb threat on a plane is a serious matter. I am just saying while this is a terrible example, I can kind of see where some of the tweeter may be coming from.

Of course they could just be really really dumb people and I may be thinking too much. I don't know numbers, but in the 13 years that have passed, how many bombs threats have come to light? How many followed up? How many bombing attempts have been stopped since our ramp up in security for airplanes? These are all questions that make people want to ridicule a strict system that seems to give no benefit, and invade peoples privacy.

[AkydefGoldberg]

I'm sorry but she deserves all she gets. Complete idiot to think they'd just dismiss it as a joke aswell.

Apparently, she says it was her "mate" who did it; yet she was boasting about the 10k re-tweets.

There was something similar in the UK, where a man joked he'd bomb an an airport over closures but his was, in poor taste, but could tell it was designed to be humorous but this girl seems to have been trying to elicit humour but to me, sounded serious.

[Locke]

Tons of people these days don't think there are consequences for their actions and it all stems from how they were disciplined as a child. My young cousin was never punished for anything she ever did because her mother believed discipline was damaging to children or some shit. Now my young cousin has 6 kids with 6 daddy's, at least 3 "secret" abortions that we know about, lives off of welfare, has never worked a day in her life, and likely deals drugs as well as her body.

Thumbs up for anti-discipline.

Anyhoo, long story short, people making bomb threats, death threats, or any sort of threat should be dealt with swiftly and publicly, in my honest opinion. Her and others like her on Twitter should be justly punished for wasting valuable law enforcement resources on empty lies.

[CavingSiberian]

people making bomb threats, death threats, or any sort of threat should be dealt with swiftly and publicly, in my honest opinion. Her and others like her on Twitter should be justly punished for wasting valuable law enforcement resources on empty lies.

EXACTLY!