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<--- Not a teenage girl.

No thanks!

 HiveFleetPlastic wrote:
I think our best defense against terrorism is to be as fearful as possible at all times. As long as we can keep our fear level at maximum we will be immune to further terrorist acts.

Or maybe locking people up over dumb, insincere threats is stupid. Hopefully the worst that happens to this girl is she gets a talking to.

When she's let out of prison 80 years from now. Spare the solitary, spoil the prisoner!

 motyak wrote:
I thought someone said it was a Dutch kid, not a Dane. If so, wouldn't that ding your whole 'look at a map Americans' insult?

Also, good job heaving the point around until you could take a shot at America. In the other threads you just came out with it, this time you tried subtlety....for a bit.

Confusing Dutch and Danes is perfectly fine. I myself also struggle to see any differences at all. They are eerily similiar. The only difference I have found so far is that Dutch talk like oo and aa while Danes go more like ø and å.

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 motyak wrote:
I thought someone said it was a Dutch kid, not a Dane. If so, wouldn't that ding your whole 'look at a map Americans' insult?

Also, good job heaving the point around until you could take a shot at America. In the other threads you just came out with it, this time you tried subtlety....for a bit.

Confusing Dutch and Danes is perfectly fine. I myself also struggle to see any differences at all. They are eerily similiar. The only difference I have found so far is that Dutch talk like oo and aa while Danes go more like ø and å.

A Møøse once bit my sister.

 daedalus wrote:

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 motyak wrote:
I thought someone said it was a Dutch kid, not a Dane. If so, wouldn't that ding your whole 'look at a map Americans' insult?

Also, good job heaving the point around until you could take a shot at America. In the other threads you just came out with it, this time you tried subtlety....for a bit.

Confusing Dutch and Danes is perfectly fine. I myself also struggle to see any differences at all. They are eerily similiar. The only difference I have found so far is that Dutch talk like oo and aa while Danes go more like ø and å.

A Møøse once bit my sister.

A pity it was Swedish Moose then

Dutch Olympic Field Hockey Team

If wrong Country leave it alone its my fantasy.

I keep forgetting some people do not have worldly experience

14 year olds should know damn well that walking into a hospital and threatening (even jokingly) to blow it up is both morally wrong, and illegal.

Why some people think its a "joke" when the medium is changed from in person, to via mail, phone, e-mail, twitter, facebook, ect is just silly.

OBS the girl shouldnt go to jail or have her whole life ruined, just let her off with no criminal record but a bunch of community service and be done with it.

Still dissapointing to see her use the "but im a girl" defence too.. that card should have been taken out of the deck a long time ago.

 easysauce wrote:


Still dissapointing to see her use the "but im a girl" defence too.. that card should have been taken out of the deck a long time ago.

Daemonhammer wrote:

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.

Perhaps in enlightened countries like Denmark that card is still taught and used.

The girl has been released yesterday by the police. Her parents had taken her to the police station in the first place.

I doubt there will be much in terms of consequences. The usual punishment is some community service but no criminal record.
A no fly listing could be a bit of a bother.

 Antario wrote:
The girl has been released yesterday by the police. Her parents had taken her to the police station in the first place.

I doubt there will be much in terms of consequences. The usual punishment is some community service but no criminal record.
A no fly listing could be a bit of a bother.

Works for me.

Daemonhammer wrote:
I was merely mocking the fact that a 14 year old was able to get arrested for posting something stupid on twitter and people are taking it seriously.

But no, you couldnt see that and you react with instant hostility.

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.
You Americans should look at a map sometimes.

Maybe you should look at a map, Dutch people come The Netherlands.

 Soladrin wrote:

Daemonhammer wrote:
I was merely mocking the fact that a 14 year old was able to get arrested for posting something stupid on twitter and people are taking it seriously.

But no, you couldnt see that and you react with instant hostility.

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.
You Americans should look at a map sometimes.

Maybe you should look at a map, Dutch people come The Netherlands.

I thought Dutch people came from other Dutch people...

 Ahtman wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

Daemonhammer wrote:
I was merely mocking the fact that a 14 year old was able to get arrested for posting something stupid on twitter and people are taking it seriously.

But no, you couldnt see that and you react with instant hostility.

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.
You Americans should look at a map sometimes.

Maybe you should look at a map, Dutch people come The Netherlands.

I thought Dutch people came from other Dutch people...

So that stork / cabbage patch story my mommy tells me isn't true?!?!!

 Ahtman wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

Daemonhammer wrote:
I was merely mocking the fact that a 14 year old was able to get arrested for posting something stupid on twitter and people are taking it seriously.

But no, you couldnt see that and you react with instant hostility.

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.
You Americans should look at a map sometimes.

Maybe you should look at a map, Dutch people come The Netherlands.

I thought Dutch people came from other Dutch people...

I thought they just grew out of wooden shoes.

Someone implementing the "Clone" doctrine early......

 Soladrin wrote:

Daemonhammer wrote:
I was merely mocking the fact that a 14 year old was able to get arrested for posting something stupid on twitter and people are taking it seriously.

But no, you couldnt see that and you react with instant hostility.

Also this is Denmark, its in central Europe and its not a third world country in Africa or Middle East.
You Americans should look at a map sometimes.

Maybe you should look at a map, Dutch people come The Netherlands.

Beat you to it

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 motyak wrote:
I thought someone said it was a Dutch kid, not a Dane. If so, wouldn't that ding your whole 'look at a map Americans' insult?

Also, good job heaving the point around until you could take a shot at America. In the other threads you just came out with it, this time you tried subtlety....for a bit.

Confusing Dutch and Danes is perfectly fine. I myself also struggle to see any differences at all. They are eerily similiar. The only difference I have found so far is that Dutch talk like oo and aa while Danes go more like ø and å.

Watch what you are saying you fake Dutch man, there is a large difference! we have legal prostitutes, weed, cheese, tulips, windmills, gabber house and like to put our fingers into dykes!

 Fafnir wrote:
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.

only if they'e idiots and don't know what PUBLIC means.

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

Because you cant assemble a live bomb while wearing a burka?

 Orlanth wrote:

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

Because you cant assemble a live bomb while wearing a burka?

Is that why she said she's "just a girl"? Or is it because Ibrahim is clearly not a girl? She also wrote she's not from Afghanistan perhaps in an attempt to counter all the claims of her initial tweet.

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
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.

only if they'e idiots and don't know what PUBLIC means.

If they're 14, it's an absolute guarantee.

 Fafnir wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
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.

only if they'e idiots and don't know what PUBLIC means.

If they're 14, it's an absolute guarantee.

I'm 14...

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
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.

only if they'e idiots and don't know what PUBLIC means.

If they're 14, it's an absolute guarantee.

I'm 14...

So am I.
Being 14 doesn't automatically mean you are stupid. Some 14 year olds are actually rather intelligent.

Intelligence at 14 is generally compensated for by a lack of real experience, maturity and responsibility.

The subject of the opening post could be a certified genius when base intelligence is measured. That, however, was not enough to prevent her from doing something stupid.

Why did cutting grass for money at 14 come to mind

 Jihadin wrote:
Why did cutting grass for money at 14 come to mind

Cutting grass beat shoveling snow...

What i wonder is why are twitter messages treated so seriously.

Soon World of Warcraft chat messages will be enough proof to convict someone for making death threats.

Daemonhammer wrote:
What i wonder is why are twitter messages treated so seriously.

Soon World of Warcraft chat messages will be enough proof to convict someone for making death threats.

Good question. I think the answer lies in the threat/message, not the medium used to pass it. If an airline receives a threat, via a sent letter, spray paint on the wall of their building, email, twitter or whatever, I think the responsible action on their part is to pass the info to some law enforcement agency. The air line does not have the investigative capability to determine the veracity of the threat, and if they chose to ignore it and it was real they could have some major liability issues.

 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.

You know you're getting old when you decide that "teenagers these days" doing exactly the same stuff in exactly the same amounts as the things you and your peers did when you were young are suddenly a massive threat to society that must be stopped.

Seriously, the lack of awareness whenever topics like this come up his hilarious. "Oooh, these younguns and their 'media socials' on their 'interwebs', we didn't have that sort of malarkey in my day let me tell you!". Of course before the 'net it was "hip-hop culture" or grunge music or Goths or rock music or raves or metal etc etc blah blah.

Everyone's an idiot when they're a teenager, it's demonstrable scientifically, that's why we don't allow children to drive, smoke, drink, have sex, join the military or vote, because it's factually true that, statistically speaking, any individual child is incapable of properly assessing risk and are substantially more vulnerable to manipulation by authority figures.

This silly wee girl made a bad joke. Unfunny? Yep. Tasteless? Probably. But criminal? Only in the minds of the most petty authoritarian hypocrites.

They rather be safe then sorry.