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A couple of holidaymakers have reportedly been deported from the US for a couple of joke tweets.
Resulting in:
OK, it's The Register, and worse, EL Reg quoting The Fail.
But are people really being denied entry to the United States because of twittering?
The first...said: "3 weeks today, we're totally in LA pissing people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!"; the second..."Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America."
Resulting in:
"I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe. I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show."
She added: "It got even more ridiculous because the officials searched our suitcases and said they were looking for spades and shovels. They did a full body search on me too."
Van Bryan described the ordeal as "almost funny" but "really scary". He said: "The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist. I kept saying to them they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet but they just told me 'you've really fucked up with that tweet boy'.
OK, it's The Register, and worse, EL Reg quoting The Fail.
But are people really being denied entry to the United States because of twittering?