'100 retweets and I'll shoot someone': American man arrested for Twitter threat

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A 20-year-old man from Los Angeles has been arrested after promising to shoot someone if his post was retweeted 100 times on Twitter.

Dakkari Dijon McAnuff uploaded a picture to the micro-blogging service showing a rifle pointing down a street from the top of a building. The caption read “100 RT's and I shoot someone walking,” according to reports from the LA Times.

A subsequent tweet included a picture appearing to show a wounded man with the caption from McAnuff’s Twitter account (now suspended) reading “Man Down. Mission Completed.”

Police were alerted to the pictures and quickly tracked McAnuff to his home on the 700 block of West Ninth Street in downtown LA. McAnuff was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats with a bail set at $50,000.

Thankfully, the police later determined that the pictures were posted as a joke, with McAnuff’s gun revealed to be a relatively harmless airsoft rifle.

The picture contained in the original tweet was reposted by local news editor Julie Sone, although social media accounts associated with McAnuff shows him posing with what appears to be as similar rifle.

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[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I was just going to post this. Damn you.

[Peikko 1,575]

That's just the sort of person who should be running around with a gun

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

That's just the sort of person who should be running around with a gun

maybe that's why he had only an airsoft

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Jeez, that's one block away from my boyfriend's cousin's home. Not cheap on that block. That isn't the hood.

[Peikko 1,575]

maybe that's why he had only an airsoft

That's all you have to say? It's ok for him to point a gun at strangers because it's only a joke and not a 'real' gun? Why am I not surprised?

[SMOKE 1,426]

busted. good. he deserves to be in jail.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

That's all you have to say? It's ok for him to point a gun at strangers because it's only a joke and not a 'real' gun? Why am I not surprised?

why am i not surprised by your response?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Why?

[Novembro 1,763]

maybe that's why he had only an airsoft

One of my friends shot me in the calf with an airsoft once. Those things are no joke.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There are many sick f*cks out there.

[Novembro 1,763]

Fortunately we have HBO to make shows about them.

[Peikko 1,575]

why am i not surprised by your response?

You're supposed to be a moderator, stop baiting.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I think this guy was just afraid for his life and it's a shame he didn't shoot anyone. That's what Texas and Florida thinks, at least.

[deleted-05292014 331]

Kinda reminds me watching the First 48. I'm always saying, thank God most criminals are idiots. If the guy was smart he could have at least made an anonymous twitter account. If he was even an IQ notch higher he could have spoofed his location to a rooftop in another city.