Music executive arrested for not sending tweet
By Peter | November 26th, 2009
Justin Bieber is, I’m told, a pop sensation that drives the tweens crazy. And not just the usual junior-high level of crazy. We’re talking stampede-through-the-mall-thereby-potentially-crushing-other-tweens-to-death crazy. And therein lies the problem…
Last Sunday, Bieber was scheduled to appear for an autograph signing at a mall in Long Island, NY. Thousands of fans of the diminutive, young crooner showed up at the mall, drawn by the promise of catching a glimpse of their high-pitched hero.
The crowd was shrill and excited and, as it grew larger and larger, increasingly unruly. At that point, the police pulled the plug on Bieber’s appearance, and forbid him from entering the mall and causing an even larger ruckus.
So things had pretty much progressed the way you would expect from a Justin Bieber appearance at a mall in Long Island. But that’s when things got a little weird.
The police, alarmed at the possibility of thousands of twelve year-olds looting the mall when denied an autograph, came up with a plan to calm the crowd. They asked Bieber’s record label representative, James Ropo, to send a tweet from Bieber’s Twitter account asking the crowd to calm down.
When Ropo refused the request, the police arrested him. Yes, in what may be the first case of its kind, he was incarcerated for refusing to tweet.
Police Detective Lieutenant Kevin Smith was quoted as saying: “We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message… By not cooperating with us, we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk.”
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