{"id":2309,"date":"2012-01-30T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2012-01-31T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T14:29:25","slug":"holidays-black-humor-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"Holidays, black humor and Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are things that cannot correlate with each other. And in the internet your words can<br \/>\nalways be read by people you&#8217;d better not wanna face. In this case a young couple from<br \/>\nUK has used twitter to fork out some black humor and celebrate their holidays by<br \/>\n&#8220;destroying&#8221; the USA and &#8220;exhuming&#8221; Madonna. Their holidays wne into a horror trip!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So what happened? When they have posted ther tweet they prepared for their holidays in the USA and took the plane to Los Angeles. But instead a warm welcome, they got into custody. While being put in handcuffs, they&#8217;ve been taken to an auditing bureau where they got a hearing from the local security forces. The hearing took several hours. The pair tried to ensure that they&#8217;re no terrorists at all. It was just a figure of speech where &#8220;destroy&#8221; means &#8220;having a great party time&#8221;. With the second phrase &#8220;digging out Marilyn Monroe&#8221;, the dug even deeper into trouble so that the local securities forked to their luggage searching for shovels. The only comment the pair heard several times was: &#8220;You&#8217;ve really fucked up with that tweet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the first horrible hours, the pair was put in a prison bus and transported to a deportation prison for another 12 hours, separated and together with extremely dangerous mexican drug dealers. Later on, they&#8217;ve been sent back to the UK again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time that Twitter causes trouble to innocent people. In 2010 a man got fined 1000 british pounds for his expression to &#8220;destroy&#8221; the airport as his flight was delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Another Twitter user has come up with a good expression for this: &#8220;You have the right to remain silent &#8211; even on Twitter&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are things that cannot correlate with each other. And in the internet your words can always be read by people you&#8217;d better not wanna face. In this case a young couple from UK has used twitter to fork out some black humor and celebrate their holidays by &#8220;destroying&#8221; the USA and &#8220;exhuming&#8221; Madonna. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,19],"tags":[1379,1380,1376,1378,1377,633,335,36],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-custody","tag-deportation","tag-horror","tag-overreacting","tag-trip","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}