US bars friends over Twitter joke
Found on The Sun on Tuesday, 31 January 2012
US special agents monitoring Twitter spotted Leigh Van Bryan's messages weeks before he left for a holiday in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.
Leigh, 26, was kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers. The Department of Homeland Security flagged up Leigh as a potential threat when he posted a Twitter message to his pals ahead of his trip to Hollywood.
It read: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America".
"The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist. I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me 'You've really f***ed up with that tweet, boy'."
Obviously the DHS has enough money, enough agents, enough spare time and not enough real work. I'd say it is about time to cut down their budget and workforce. Let's destroy the DHS. Oops, so much for my chance to visit the US.