Some people are kooky, some a little strange, others could be called nutty and then there are those people who are genuinely just plain old bonkers.  Enter former soldier Christopher Villaweaver (pictured) who's position on this scale I'll let you decide. Chris, for some reason best known to himself, decides that it'd be a hoot to send what was interpreted by the authorities as a bomb threat… via Twitter. 

His message apparently read:

"Just decided that a chlorine bomb in a court room is the best idea so far"

Which (if my grasp of the English language isn't far worse than I thought it was), isn't an actual threat at all...

Now don’t get me wrong it does appear that Chris has had a bit of trouble with this sort of thing in the past and he may very well be somewhere near the top of the kooky/bonkers marzipan spoon ladder, but his message isn't an actual threat, so I'm not sure how they could prosecute him over it (which they did) and here comes the scariest bit of the story for me…

"Anti-terrorism software picked up the message and alerted police"… Anti-terrorism software… Anti-terrorism software (I think I'll say it again with a bit of bold and caps).

ANTI-TERRORISM SOFTWARE!

So I'm guessing this software is just sitting there reading all of our Tweets then… reading through all our tweets, probably our facebook status updates too, what about our IM messages and emails, what about blogs… hell what about braingunk???  Well I'd guess it'd have to scan everything if it was going to be at all useful.  I also guess it's just sitting there ignoring all of our private messages that are not terrorism related, not taking any notes of anything, you know, protecting our privacy and freedoms and all that, unless we use some predefined key words… I dunno something like "bomb"… I guess.  I mean, I have to guess cos they never tell me nothing, but bomb does seem like an obvious word to scan for, if you were looking for terrorists (which is almost exactly why a real terrorist would probably never the word bomb in an email).

Just for the record did this Anti-terrorist software have to register as a Twitter user?  Does it have an account? Can I follow it?  What's that funny old Anti-terrorist software tweeting about today, I wanna know…

Or maybe I should just crawl back under my rock and shut the fuck up about it, before the guys with black balaclavas and machine guns kick my windows in and drag me off for saying bomb… oh shit, I just said it again didn't I.