Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts

judgecorp writes "Paul Chambers, the Briton whose joke on Twitter backfired, will be back in court following a legal stalemate, after more than two years. Chambers joked about blowing up South Yorkshire's Robin Hood airport in January 2010, and was arrested and fined for 'sending a public electronic message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.' His resultant criminal record lost him his job as an accountant. Now his appeal has been heard, but the two judges disagreed with each other, so Chambers will be back in court again."

I'll kill those festering scumbags!

[HornWumpus]

Who made it illegal to be an internet tough guy? I'll kill them and feast on their children.

When someone perfects rStabInEye, then we worry.

There's a lesson here...

[Lord_of_the_nerf]

Make all your threats on MySpace, kids. It's technically public.

Re:Don't make stupid jokes.

[moozey]

A few months ago I had a domestic flight in Australia, the first time I'd flown in years. Amusingly, I get swabbed for explosives by security. Afterwards, sitting around waiting for my flight I came very, very close to making a Facebook status a long the lines of "Just got swabbed for explosives at the airport, lucky I left my C4 at home". I'm glad I was smart enough not to.

Rickrolls back into UK courts

[Culture20]

That's what I read.

Re:New Rule: Mark your jokes.

[LostCluster2.0]

Yeah, I hate it when I write something serious and get back 3:Funny. Maybe mods should be limited to the serious mods for posts declared serious and Funny only for posts tagged as a joke. I'll send the Wicked Early News team after this story...