Fan Arrested at Concert for Tweeting the Word ‘Bomb’

It should be clear to us all by now that what you say online can bite you in the ass, and thanks to an Australian teenager, we have yet more proof to toss up onto the pile.

At a 12,000 person concert for pop artist Pink held this past weekend in Warrnambool, Australia, an overly-excited teenager took to Twitter to exclaim:

@Pink I’m ready with my Bomb. Time to blow up #RodLaverArena. Bitch.

To the non-Pink fan, that might seem a little unusual, but once you realize that one of Pink’s most recent tracks is called “Timebomb“, things become a little clearer. In the tweet, Bomb and Time are both capitalized… the logic seems simple. It wasn’t so simple to the venue management, however, who rang the police to come snatch him, which they managed pretty quickly, according to reports.

It seems obvious (at least to me) that the teen meant nothing by his tweet other than wording “Let’s get the party started!” less eloquently. The teenager’s sister tried to made an excuse about how the tweet was written too fast to take care to spell “timebomb” completely, but again, the logic above, and his well-structured writing, hints at the fact that it was a statement to complement the track.

Still… damn. Just don’t say these things online. We’ve seen this happen too many times.