Teen Gets Arrested after Terrorist Joke on Twitter

Arresting her was the right thing to do, I agree. Let's just hope she learned her lesson, if she really is 14 years old.

 

Um... She's an idiot teenager. It's plain as day. Chrissakes, she didn't even use proper punctuation! It's one thing to take security seriously and quite another to mindlessly pursue every mention of a bomb or foreign organization. In fact all it really does is wear their resources and awareness thin for when a real threat emerges. They look like shuddering chihuahuas barking at shadows.

I might ask my stepdad if he's heard of this, since he flies for American, though I have a feeling we'd be at odds on it.

 

Honestly, even if it's a prank, teens at this age should know better than to do **** like this.

If I were her parents, I'd ban them from going online for a long time, put a parental control on her computer monitoring what she does, ban her from facebook and twitter, and ban her from her cell and other such devices. It sounds harsh, but the social media, not totally at fault, is giving teenagers more and more free reign to do what they want without supervision, and this stupid stuff happens. Even if it was a "stupid" teen, everyone takes things seriously after 9/11, and she should know that at that age. Hell, just flying she should know that.

 

Her brain is still developing. Most kids don't seriously comprehend all of that at that age unless someone close to them was involved. Also, she's Dutch! She doesn't know what an airline's gonna do to her. Anyway, there are better ways to handle it than a full-on arrest; how about having some of the people who lost loved ones in those crashes message her and tell how funny they think it is? Or how about some of the things you suggested, like keeping her off the internet?

 

I'm sorry if this offends anyone....but is she a blond? No matter what you think, threatening an airline is not a smart idea, in any sense of the word, especially since 9/11. Not too mentioned, she was actually happy about the amount of tweets she got from this? You know what, if they find out some day that she does something ******ed like this again, just cut all electricity to any home she lives in till she's 40-years old. Then maybe she'll learn

 

Even if she's Dutch, Irish, purple, pink, blue... She should know about 9/11... The whole WORLD knew about 9/11 when it happened. Not just the U.S. and it's allies.

She needs to know that there are more consequences than: "I can't believe you said that... My brother died in 9/11, I still remember that today." That gives her "ATTENTION" And that's what she wants. It's like a two year old throwing themselves to the ground and screaming and kicking at the top of their lungs for a toy in public. It's like those idiot teens who smash gallons of milk on the floor in ridiculous flips to get attention when it could likely kill them, they only do it because people notice them. An arrest won't hurt her and neither will banning her from the Internet and twitter, she will learn there's serious consequences to things instead of someone giving her what she wants: Attention.

Also, note: What if she was serious? What if a moment she actually did it? In the vaguest possibility? There are six year olds who murder their siblings on purpose, kids underdeveloped brains can also do things that they don't know they're getting into, hell, some kids end up in prostitution and/or terrorist cells because they don't realize what the hell they're doing. It's realistic.

 

That's petty as fuck

As for the article itself. I don't really know what to say, I get that it's bad but if you arrested every child that said something ridiculously stupid like this, the cops would be busy 24/7.

 

She's only 14, so arresting her is a bit much, imo. We'd have so many dumb arrests and way less resources if they were wasted on something like this every time it happened.

Still, I hope she learns her lesson.

 

Looks to me like she was looking for attention and did something she knew was wrong but either expected to still be anonymous or to only get a slap on the wrist.

I'm glad she got serious ramifications out of it. And keep in mind people this is just an arrest. Considering the fact that she's a minor the sentence is likely to be minimal or have the charges dropped.

 

Personally, I think that's overdoing it. They're practically censoring your freedom of speech if you wanted to talk about a bomb threat that happened at your job, for example.

 

Freedom of speech means you can say whatever you want without people stopping you from saying it. However, there are still consequences for your words/actions.

If you say fire in a movie theater, your ass will get in trouble. You are free to say it, but that doesn't mean you won't get in trouble.

 

A note today:

An 18 year old with an underdeveloped brain last year on this day dropped off a bomb in the middle of the Boston Marathon finish line. Dozens of people were killed and at least six lost their legs in the explosions, my Godmother was a mile away from the finish line looking for her niece and missed the explosion by ten minutes. What if that 14 year old kid, just for a moment, had that same thought going off in their head when they made that threat and it was blown off and something actually happened? What if that kid who was 18 sent a threat on Twitter to Boston and it was ignored because: "He's just a kid, he won't do anything."

**** happens, even if it's fake, even if it's just a "joke" it has to be treated seriously. It's not something you can say: "Well, it's freedom of speech." Yes, we have that, but we also live in a country where over a decade ago four planes crashing changed our whole country. A year ago on this date, kids around most of the members age called themselves the: "Marathon Bombers" and sent Boston into complete and utter shut down when they decided to see how much "attention" they can get for their country. How much "attention" they can get themselves. It's a part of life now, and if people don't know that, they should sure as hell learn fast that this country, despite all the constitution rights, has LINES and LIMITS that can never be crossed, because if we ever ignore those lines and limits, we could end up with so much more tragedy.

 

100% deserves it!

 

I totally agree. She deserved it. Age is just a number, she knew full on what she was doing. She just didn't think about the consequences. She deserves everything she is getting right now, she will be closely watched from now on. American doesn't take """"jokes"""""" likely.

 

It's a good thing we got this 14 year old girl but not the pedophiles who live down the street from me. GG

 

I could say something here about this, but I'm not, as this is not the time nor place to talk about pedophiles. If there is someone in town who is actually taking kids and doing god-knows what with them, by all means, report them. If they're just on the list because anyone who does anything with an underage child at any age, even 18 and the child was 15 and it was consensual, the 18 year old is put on the list... And no one has any complaints, it's a different story. There's a huge difference between the two.

The FBI tries their hardest, I've seen them nail down things with terrorism and pedophilia. Is life fair and rainbows and sunshine and forgiveness? No, hell, when I was in high school some kids got arrested for moving the boulders in front of our school, that's all they were doing. Why? Because it was the time of senior pranks, and they were doing their senior prank for the year with them. But two weeks before that some other kids vandalized the school, throwing bricks at street lights, graffiti all over the place, and smashing windows. Seniors were at the top of the suspect list because of what the graffiti said, and were those kids who were moving a few rocks around going to do the same as vandalism? No. Were they right to do what they were doing despite it being just a prank? Probably not due to everyone knowing about what happened in the damned school and teachers warning against pranks that year due to it. Did that stop them from pulling it anyway and getting arrested despite teachers clearly saying: "You will get arrested for pulling any pranks this year."? No.

When bad things happen, whether it's a small prank or a bomb threat sent to an airline, if things have happened before that have seen serious damage done, it will make people jumpy and take extra action to stop it before it happens again, even if it's something small and the person is 14 or 60. It's better then ending up with smashed windows or blowing up planes.