Teens Now Tweeting Bomb-Threat Jokes to American Airlines
Teenagers are now tweeting bomb jokes to American Airlines, spurred on by the arrest of a Dutch teenager identified as “Sarah” in Rotterdam on Monday, who tweeted “hello my name’s Ibrahim and I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m gonna do something really big bye” to the airline. American Airlines replied that they had reported her name and IP address to authorities.
While that demonstration should have, theoretically, sent a message to other pranksters that terrorism jokes to airlines are off limits, it clearly didn’t work as planned.