Actually, that was just one part of the tweet which landed Paul Chambers in the dock at Doncaster Magistrates Court.
“You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high.”
The Yorkshireman’s issue with the airport was the snow. Lets face it, after the last three months, most of us are fed up with the inferior way the authorities handled the ‘crisis’. The ‘crisis’ being that the people responsible for running the national infrastructure forgot over the last few warmer and wetter winters, that the UK can still get snow, and lots of it. What has Robin Hood Airport been wasting money on instead?
A few choice ideas:
- Champagne and parties, and corporate hospitality.
- A new first class lounge.
- Bondage maidens for the Chief Executive.
In reality, they’ve been rebuilding the airport, upgrading the infrastructure, they just forgot about the snow.
So yes, Paul is probably well within his rights to post a jokey comment on Twitter. Come on, would Al Qaeda really choose Twitter to discuss bombing an airport?
Whatever, 26 year old Paul has been charged with sending by a public communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.
The very same Communications Act which can’t do anything about the grossly offensive, indecent and obscene article by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail, where she put late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately’s death down to the fact that he was gay.
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