14 year old arrested For Terrorist Threat.

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**poppa G**

lololol
Jokes gone wrong/thread

**AlmightyWalrus**

And this, children, is why you don't cry wolf unless there's a wolf.

**Fafnir**

I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

**purplefood**

I like the bit where she tries to blame a friend.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Fafnir wrote:
I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

A 14 year old using Twitter is the real outrage in my opinion.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Fafnir wrote:
I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

It's 2014, you're the old guy looking down on kids and their game boys now

**Experiment 626**

Fafnir wrote:
I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

Seriously? You're amazed that 14 year olds are living on twitter/facebook/insta-who-gives-a-crap and all those other "socially parent my child for me please" sites?!

It's 2014, my cousin who's now a 9th grade math teacher had to ban cell phones when he was still substitute teaching a class of 3rd graders for feth's sake!

**Fafnir**

It may sound old and outdated, but I for one firmly believe that children shouldn't be allowed to use public social media, at least not without adult supervision, because children say really stupid gak, and then stuff like that happens.

**Hordini**

That sucks.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Fafnir wrote:
I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

It's 2014, you're the old guy looking down on kids and their game boys now

I had a Game Boy and it sure as hell never got me arrested.

**TheCustomLime**

I like how she says "I'm just a girl" as a defense. As if only guys can do these things.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Fafnir wrote:
I think the more important thing to wonder is how the hell are children allowed to use twitter?

It's 2014, you're the old guy looking down on kids and their game boys now
I had a Game Boy and it sure as hell never got me arrested.

Then you used it wrong

**timetowaste85**

Well. She's fethed.

Seriously, how dumb do you have to be? I feel sorry for her parents. Stupid teenager, they're probably dying of shame.

**Ahtman**

A 14-year-old Dutch girl who threatened a terrorist attack in a tweet to American Airlines was arrested in Rotterdam on Monday — but that didn't stop a copycat from tweeting a similar threat to another airline.

A Twitter user named "Sarah" wrote on Twitter over the weekend that she was a member of Al Qaeda and that she would "do something really big."

The threat was apparently meant as a joke, but American Airlines wasn't laughing.

The airline tweeted: "Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI."
American also issued a statement, saying “At American, the safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority. We take security matters very seriously and work with authorities on a case by case basis.”

"Sarah" quickly backtracked, saying she was a 14-year-old white girl who made the whole thing up.

“I’m so sorry I’m scared now,” she responded to American Airlines on Twitter. “I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine.”

The girl then spent hours on Sunday trying to explain the tweet and beg for forgiveness.

“I’m just a fangirl pls I don’t have evil thoughts and plus I’m a white girl," she tweeted.

She also pleaded: "I was kidding pls don't I'm just a girl pls."

In other rambling tweet she wrote "and I'm not from Afghanistan."

Authorities have apparently not accepted her apology or explanation.

"We're not in a state that we can communicate any state of charges at this point," Dutch police spokesperson Wessel Stole told Business Insider. "We just thought it was necessary to bring this out mostly because of the fact that it caused a great deal of interest on the Internet."

Despite her arrest, others didn't get the message.

Another Twitter user sent a threat to Southwest Airlines, which responded Monday by saying: "The safety of our customers and employees is our top priority. Your info had been given to the appropriate authorities." The user later tweeted it was a joke.

Don't make fake terrorist threats and you won't have any problems, I would think. There are better, and less actionable, pranks out there.

**Sparkadia**

TheCustomLime wrote:
I like how she says "I'm just a girl" as a defense. As if only guys can do these things.

Only men are bad, that's just science.
It's like you don't even listen to the feminists Lime!

**TheCustomLime**

Sparkadia wrote:
TheCustomLime wrote:
I like how she says "I'm just a girl" as a defense. As if only guys can do these things.

Only men are bad, that's just science.
It's like you don't even listen to the feminists Lime!

Not only are men the only bad guys but non-whites too! It's amazing what you learn from 14 year old Europeans.

**Matt.Kingsley**

Sparkadia wrote:
TheCustomLime wrote:
I like how she says "I'm just a girl" as a defense. As if only guys can do these things.

Only men are bad, that's just science.
It's like you don't even listen to the feminists Lime!

Yeah Lime, everyone knows that the only people who can do wrong a straight, white upperclass men. I mean look at them, blaming the 3rd World for all these attacks obviously caused by other straight, white upperclass men. That and oppressing females by having the audacity to say they are aiming for equality!

But OT, how stupid do you have to be... I mean seriously. Most the idiots around her supposed age I have the, er.. 'honour' of being acquaintances with wouldn't do that.Actaul, wait that may not be true...

Still, if you even think for a second that this is a good idea something is messed with you...

**Ahtman**

If anything the assumption from her statement would be that non-white males are problematic, not white males.

**daedalus**

Normally I'd roll my eyes and consider this stupid and a waste of everyone's time for overreacting to something flippant a stupid kid said online.

Given who it was directed at this time though, I still do, but it's the stupid kid I blame, not society. I guess I still blame society, but not in the way previously inferred.

...whoever the victim is here, I hope I got them with the blame ray there.

**tau tse tung**

I hate people that do "jokes" like this, a "friend" of mind kept writing "lol jihad" in facebook chat, although its not nearly the same it still got me so paranoid. This type of thing isnt funny at all. (Apart from seeing people doing such stupid things.) When she claimed "i wont do anything, i'm just a white girl". Yeah, really good defence.

**feeder**

I remember when I was a kid, before the internet was a thing, and the rumour was if you even said the word "bomb" at an airport you would get arrested. We'd all laugh our stupid fourteen year old laughs and talk about how we would see who could say "bomb" the loudest at an airport and get away with it.

Thank god I was a stupid kid before the internet was a thing.

**Crablezworth**

Is taking a threat from a 14 year old "seriously" a good thing?

**tau tse tung**

feeder wrote:
I remember when I was a kid, before the internet was a thing, and the rumour was if you even said the word "bomb" at an airport you would get arrested. We'd all laugh our stupid fourteen year old laughs and talk about how we would see who could say "bomb" the loudest at an airport and get away with it.

Thank god I was a stupid kid before the internet was a thing.

It's why i hated being 14. I think its true though.

**Ahtman**

feeder wrote:
I remember when I was a kid, before the internet was a thing, and the rumour was if you even said the word "bomb" at an airport you would get arrested. We'd all laugh our stupid fourteen year old laughs and talk about how we would see who could say "bomb" the loudest at an airport and get away with it.

Thank god I was a stupid kid before the internet was a thing.

You probably would have gone through a similar ordeal if you yelled "bomb!" in an airport. If you ran when security showed up you would have made it worse.

We should remember nothing has really happened to this girl yet beyond a scare, so I don't see getting all up in a lather about it. If they press charges and she goes to court or is sentenced then it might be time to reevaluate, but as it is the only thing that has happened is being picked up and questioned, which is a good way to scare someone, but doesn't effect their life horribly.

**tau tse tung**

tau tse tung wrote:
feeder wrote:
I remember when I was a kid, before the internet was a thing, and the rumour was if you even said the word "bomb" at an airport you would get arrested. We'd all laugh our stupid fourteen year old laughs and talk about how we would see who could say "bomb" the loudest at an airport and get away with it.

Thank god I was a stupid kid before the internet was a thing.

It's why i hated being 14, i think the type of humour is just annoying, i can't talk to, i guess ibmade awful "jokes" too, but never this stupid.I think its true though about the airport thing you said

**Sparkadia**

Crablezworth wrote:
Is taking a threat from a 14 year old "seriously" a good thing?

Judging by all the #420BlazeIt #YOLO #FrackThaPoleece teenagers these days, you never know what crazy stuff they could be actually considering doing.

**Seaward**

TheCustomLime wrote:I like how she says "I'm just a girl" as a defense. As if only guys can do these things.

We're all equal.

Until the boat starts sinking.

Crablezworth wrote:Is taking a threat from a 14 year old "seriously" a good thing?

How old was the kid who just slashed up his school? How old were the Columbine guys?

**Hordini**

Seaward wrote:

Crablezworth wrote:Is taking a threat from a 14 year old "seriously" a good thing?

How old was the kid who just slashed up his school? How old were the Columbine guys?

None of them made jokes about what they were about to do though, they just did them. Comparing this to all the attacks that have actually happened in the past, making a tweet like this before hand is probably one of the biggest indications that the person is actually not serious about doing anything.

**Crablezworth**

Sparkadia wrote:
Crablezworth wrote:
Is taking a threat from a 14 year old "seriously" a good thing?

Judging by all the #420BlazeIt #YOLO #FrackThaPoleece teenagers these days, you never know what crazy stuff they could be actually considering doing.

I do know that the ability to type is more common than the ability to carry out a terrorist attack, especially after warning the target. Taking too much seriously is just a make work project after a certain point.

Terrorism, like the internet is "serious" business it seems.

**Frazzled**

Good. Put her under the jail and do it publicly. Alternatively sentence her to watch ALL the Rocky movies consecutively. That'll teach her.