Actor Stephen Fry has offered to pay legal bills for a fellow Twitter.com user who was fined for joking about blowing up an airport in a post on the microblogging site.
Paul Chambers hit the headlines in England earlier this year when he was arrested for writing a message on the site threatening to blow Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, northern England "sky high" after snowy conditions closed the building and he missed a flight.
He was found guilty of sending a menacing electronic communication and Fry, famous for his love of Twitter, was outraged by the conviction - especially as Chambers insisted the post was meant as a joke.
Chambers lost an appeal earlier this month and the judge ordered him to pay £3,000 worth of legal costs, but Fry has now offered to pay the fine out of his own pocket.
He writes:
"Paul J Chambers. My offer still stands. Whatever they fine you, I'll pay."
Good on you, Stephen! I think?....
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