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| Subject: Statist Idiots: Tourists denied entry to US over Twitter jokes Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:14 pm | |
| Two tourists claim they were denied entry to the US after joking on Twitter that they were going to "destroy America" and "dig up Marilyn Monroe".
Irishman Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and England's Emily Bunting, 24, were reportedly held for 12 hours at Los Angeles' LAX airport after being deemed potential threats by the Department of Homeland Security.
Van Bryan had posted to the social networking site a comment that said "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?", according to The Daily Mail.
"The officials told us we were not allowed in to the country because of Leigh's tweet," Bunting told the British newspaper.
"They wanted to know what we were going to do. They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/tourists-denied-entry-to-us-over-twitter-jokes-20120131-1qqro.html#ixzz1l5Xns1bi
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