You Can Be Arrested In Britain For Being An Asshole -- On Twitter, No Less
Friend wrote to me:
Thought of you in this example of Olympic rudeness. Kid humiliates defeated British diver Tom Daily in tweets. Says Daily let down his dad who died of brain cancer last year. Brits pissed, police arrest the psycho.
My response:
Rotten kid. Then again, I find it completely creepy that you can be arrested in Britain for being an asshole.It's worse in Russia.
But, I think most people only see Russia as a pretend free country.
He was more than just an asshole:
"The Twitter user Rileyy69 made a serious of insulting comments about Daly, including a claim that he would drown the superstar teenager. It is believed this tweet resulted in his arrest."
I would think that would get you arrested in the US as well.
Snoopy at August 1, 2012 6:47 AM
Yep. Death threats are illegal.
Momof4 at August 1, 2012 7:10 AM
Okay, Snoopy makes an important point.
But there's some horrible stuff on Twitter anyway. If you wanna feel a shiver, look at this guy's list of followers.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at August 1, 2012 1:05 PM
What freaked me out more than the arrest was the comments on the radio this morning about how he was an idiot and what did he expect. They weren't commenting about the drowning bit either. It was the comment about the dad they were reacting to.
NicoleK at August 1, 2012 4:37 PM
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