New 'Tweeting Bomb Threats to Airlines' Meme Didn't Last Long

Yesterday we tried to write an honest “what would you do?” post about the 14-year-old Dutch teen who tweeted a threat to American Airlines claiming to be involved with “Al Qaida” and promising to do “something big.”

While most agreed that American overreacted by implying that the authorities might just be coming for the girl (who later turned herself in), The Washington Post noticed that quite a few teens followed the story yesterday afternoon by…tweeting even more specific bomb threats to American and other major airlines.

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