Comments on: UPDATED: 17-y-o arrested in England for sending nasty tweet to losing Olympian

By: Michael Driver

Michael Driver — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Just goes to show how rabid people are about sports. Our society revolves around sports. People are obsessed with sports so much that they do stupid thing like threaten the players if they don’t perform to what people think they ought to.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:50:00 +0000

No. You are innocent until proven guilty, I believe.

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Acute post puberty psychosis, acting and feeling all man like.

Hey, the kid was a late bloomer.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:09:00 +0000

This pretty much just sucks

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Uh, yeah, that is exactly “drowning”. There’s not a Manual of Style that says that you have to hold your conscious victim underwater while kicking and screaming. In fact, knocking people out (physically or by drugs/alcohol) and pushing them under is a fairly classic tactic of drownology.

By: Dr_Wadd

Dr_Wadd — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:27:00 +0000

And the article in The Guardian was rather tricky to follow in places. I had to read through it a couple of times before I was absolutely certain about the flow of tweets.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:27:00 +0000

Really? I find that they’re often just a sign of a full bladder.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:24:00 +0000

And athletes, like other public figures, are sometimes attacked by their detractors.

By: tw1515tw

tw1515tw — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Finally an apology from Cory.

You know the thing about apologies – they should be accepted and welcomed. Always provide a golden bridge for the other person to retreat over.

Thank you Cory

By: robbersdog

robbersdog — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:42:00 +0000

Thank you. Personally I don’t think I’d be bothered by someone like this. Certainly not enough to call the police. But I also realise not everyone will see things like I do and the things he’s saying would be extremely threatening if said face to face. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t say these things face to face, but maybe some people are as bothered, as scared by someone saying these things online as they would be if it was face to face. Should the law be biased toward the people who live online and are used to this stuff or to people who may be new to twitter and more easily affected? How far do you go?

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Maybe Cory is actually a news bot based out of India, edited by someone in Malaysia, and posted by a communist Cuban?

By: EH

EH — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:39:00 +0000

Uh, that’s not exactly “drowning.”

By: EH

EH — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Uh, I don’t know if that’s the exact criteria, but yes, the idea is to evaluate whether a given threat is credible. “I’m going to kill my boss if he wears those shoes again.”

By: Phen

Phen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Here we go Robbersdog.

http://www.allmytweets.net/#rileyy_69It's not pleasant reading.Idiots will be idiots.Ironically I still believe that people can say what they want. You don’t have a right to be ‘not offended’. This kid was a repulsive weirdo and I suppose the police had to check him out but I balance that with the state telling me what to think.The police are still struggling with this. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.Problem with technology it amplifies everything. 30 years ago this would have been the weird kid in the village who you knew to avoid – now he has a global audience.

By: Purkit

Purkit — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Its been 10 hours since this was posted. Come on guys, this is making you look terrible! This is journalism at a quality level of Fox news. Your article gives the impression that this guy was arrested for a insensitive tweet when he was really arrested for threatening drowning, rape and kicking a pregnant woman to death.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Wow, he threw in some good racist and rapey ones into the mix as well. Never mind the gun related one….

http://saltandcaramel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/riley-vile.png

By: Stooge

Stooge — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Now, now…

If Cory didn’t write posts like this then his posts about other people’s confirmation bias wouldn’t be half as entertaining.

By: Stooge

Stooge — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:01:00 +0000

robbersdog, surely a better question would be what the source of Cory’s claim is…

By: agthorn1981

agthorn1981 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:49:00 +0000

Step 1 – hit swimmer over head
Step 2 – push unconscious swimmer into body of water
step 3 – profit?

By: Jens Alfke

Jens Alfke — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:38:00 +0000

I’m so glad I can come to Boing Boing and find factually-based, insightful analysis of controversial stories (instead of knee-jerk journalism that automatically jumps to ideological conclusions.)

…I’m talking about the comment threads here, of course, not junk like Cory’s post.

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:37:00 +0000

And NOT torture. Not.

By: Bonnie Patterson

Bonnie Patterson — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:32:00 +0000

At present, as I understand it, the police are refusing to confirm which specific tweet they arrested him for. I imagine that’s because it might identify the complainant and bring reprisals.

By: autark

autark — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:30:00 +0000

drowning isn’t a death threat, it’s just an extreme interrogation tactic according to the CIA

By: robbersdog

robbersdog — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:21:00 +0000

If this is the case then Corey’s post is not just misleading, it’s actually false and the police did the exact opposite of what he’s claiming. It’ll be interesting to see if this is corrected.

Do you have a source for this?

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Holy crap. He does go full-on psycho doesn’t he? He says he’s going to kick the athlete’s pregnant mother to death and burn down their house?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Yeah, now that I go read to the bottom of the article, the death threats are mentioned. Those would be “the offending tweets,” when it comes to the arrest.

Tsk tsk.

By: Phen

Phen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:09:00 +0000

It’s not. The plod had to respond when he threatened to drown Daley and stab him in the mouth. He also threatened to beat and kill various other people.

Until that point they had declined.

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:05:00 +0000

It would be this mat…with different CONCLUSIONS written on it…that you could JUMP to!

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

That’s the problem with boners: they are often fact-specific in men over about 17.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

@ChicagoD:disqus I know we’re both Americans and everything should be exactly as it is here, but other countries get some leeway in choosing the interpretation of their own laws.