17-Year-Old Boy Gets Arrested For Saying Something On Twitter! (Hate Tweets Sent To British Olympic Diver About His Dead Father)
"A Twitter user was arrested by British police Tuesday after posting threatening and abusive messages about Olympic diver Tom Daley and targeting him with a taunt about his dead father.
Police forces in Dorset, 75 miles south of London, confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that a 17-year-old had been taken into custody in relation to the incident, which followed Great Britain competitor Daley's fourth-place finish in the men's 10-meter synchronized diving event.
Britain's Tom Daley (Reuters)
"A 17-year-old man was arrested by Dorset Police officers in the early hours of this morning in a guest house in the Weymouth area," said a police spokesman reading from an official statement. "He is currently held on suspicion of malicious communications and is assisting police with our inquiries."" - Yahoo News. s/o @BOBBYTHEBLUE