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Costly airport tweet

A UK man has been fined $1600 after sending a Twitter message in which he flippantly threatened to "blow an airport sky high".

Paul Chambers, 26, is said to be the first person in Britain to be convicted of a criminal offence on the microblogging site.

A court was told that the trainee accountant was frustrated that bad weather had disrupted his planned trip to Ireland from Robin Hood airport in England’s East Midlands.

So he tapped this message on his mobile: ‘Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high’.

An airport manager found the tweet during an unrelated computer search and alerted authorities.

A lawyer for Chambers called the episode a ‘Basil Fawlty’ outburst which was immature, tasteless and unacceptable - but not criminal.



 
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News in Brief for 6 February

UK SNOW CHAOS One-third of the flights at London Heathrow were due to be cancelled yesterday amid forecasts of heavy snow. Authorities warned of dangerous driving conditions.

RUN OVER BY JET A Boeing worker was seriously injured Saturday when he was run over by a 787 Dreamliner being towed at the planemaker’s Paine Field airport north of Seattle. The man was initially trapped under right wing landing gear.

SCUBA DEATH A US tourist has died while scuba diving in Grand Cayman in the Caribbean.The 47-year-old woman lost consciousness while ascending from a dive on Saturday. Efforts were made to revive her, but she was declared dead soon after being taken to a hospital.