Did you know there was a Robin Hood Airport?! I didn't!

Man arrested after he jokes about bombing Robin Hood airport on Twitter

BY Diane Moy Schaefer
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, January 18th 2010, 3:14 PM

You don’t joke about bombing anything – even on Twitter.

A British man was arrested and held for several hours on Jan. 13 after expressing his frustrations that his flight from Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, England, to Ireland might be canceled due to snow.

Paul Chambers posted this tweet: “C---! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your s--- together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high.”

The police were alerted, and the 26-year-old finance supervisor was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to create a bomb hoax.

He is currently out on bail. Chamber’s Twitter post was removed, and his laptop, home computer and cell phone were taken away. He was also banned from Robin Hood Airport for life and suspended from his job indefinitely.

'The lead investigator kept asking, ‘Do you understand why this is happening?’ and saying, ‘It is the world we live in.’” Chambers told the London Daily Mail. “I would never have thought, in a thousand years, that any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post.

“I'm the most mild-mannered guy you could imagine.”

Chambers is thought to be the first person in England to get arrested for comments on Twitter, although cases have been reported in this country.

With News Wire Sources

Read more: [link to www.nydailynews.com]