Unthreaded
Climate Change on the Moral Maze this evening
on BBC Radio 4.
Stoic
SG. "So 6 days after he sent the tweet, it's 11pm at night and the school/police suddenly decide it was a serious threat."
Where did the 6 days come from? It wasn't from the item Tomo linked to.
Where did "suddenly" come from (your invention perhaps?)
Supertroll
SG. Utter rubbish, you have no way of getting into my twitter account. You think I'd leave it open to your tender mercies?
Supertroll
Hypothetically, I might be just hacking into @STs Twitter account right now so I can send out a couple of such tweets.
Is it fair enough that the police turn up at his door, or should they be more pragmatic ?
stewgreen
So 6 days after he sent the tweet , it's 11pm at night and the school/police suddenly decide it was a serious threat.
Good thinking he might genuinely have been about to sneak out with a can of petrol.
Of course he has a duty to NOT send out things that look like a genuine threat of violence.
"We talked for 15 minutes and by the end, the detectives were offering me information. The next day they sent me the entire file. I saw just who it was who sent the police banging on my door while my children slept. "
They did seem convinced it wasn't a genuine threat.
He was out of order.
but his kids were innocent.
If the school knew him, they should have phoned him, and said 'look you can't say things that look like threats"
stewgreen
AI replaces lawyers ....
tomo
ST
yeah... like a certain Florida school shooter? - but yes I take your point - with the proviso that I have absolutely seen worse threats on Twitter that have not been acted on - including some blood curdling ones from "blue ticks".
Having said that - I have a strong desire to punch this guy on the nose.
I've been getting promotional tweets apparently from The Powers That Be asking me to nominate somebody for an award. I'd like to nominate porky plod Sir Craig Mackey for a white feather = the new BoatyMcBoatface?
tomo
Tomo.
"I will burn this entire fucking thing to the ground" sent by tweet to a former employer, might well be reason for investigation by the police (it is after all a threat), but probably not at night. Sounds like the police at his door behaved reasonably, although they get little credit.
The school board had no business ignoring the threat.
Supertroll
Bee Rowlatt is busy retweeting Lord Adonis
stewgreen
Good news: we now have until 2030 to save the earth
ROFL