Y'mean, this guy posted some threat on YouTube, and he was _arrested_? Cripes. That's hysterical. YouTube? Gimme a break.

Besides, why do we need some lone k00k to poison our baby-food supply when there's a couple of companies in China already on the job?

I thought garbage men were meant to be unsung genuises!

I know that you _CAN_ be arrested for threatening people.

I just think that it is consistently overplayed.

I got arrested for threatening someone on UseNet last summer.

I think that it's the biggest scam ever.

To think-- that some dude would take this fruitcake seriously-- is beyond belief

You think that the guy wasn't and couldn't be taken serious because you weren't and couldn't be serious in your usenet post?

Fruitcake is right.. in your mirror.

Paris wouldn't understand either.

...be a _threat_, f'crissake? We're talking about the home of cats falling off of tables, crappily-shot pitches for MLM and time-share schemes, corporate "viral marketing" pieces masquerading as home videos of unsigned bands.

(Speaking of phony threats, whatever happened with those Aqua Teen Hunger Force guys?)

Aaron Kempf, whether you do your threat face-to-face or via YouTube, death threats are serious and not to be taken lightly. I agree with the police to arrest Anton Dunn since he stated in clear text to poison in masses. If you ignore such threats, others would just continue to increase into a "crying wolf" syndrome and then when a real threat occurs, no one will listen. Let the police and the courts decide if this threat was real or not.

An example was when a taxi driver threaten my sister of bodily harm, including killing her unborn (she was pregnant), because of a car accident. My mother was there at the time, and she took this threat seriously, to the point that she showed up with a police officer at the taxi driver's house (the police traced the car license plate). The taxi driver stated that "it was a joke" to the police officer. Really? May be it was a joke AFTER law enforcement showed up. Anton Dunn's case sounds similar...

(BTW, the car accident was cited against the taxi driver...)

> How stupid?

Well completely stupid.

As any sane racist knows black people don't feed their kids on baby food, they either eat them or cover them in flies and leave them out in the sun to die.

It really is about time the legal authorities took threats made to groups and individuals over the Internet more seriously - especially in the UK.

It's assault, harassment, abuse - the sooner some of these anonymous gutless wonders get a copper knocking at their door and making them wet their pants, the better...

A black helicopter, because they should be good for this sort of thing.