Detroit Lions Call Police Over Tweet By Sports Blogger (1 Viewer)

[False Start]

http://thenewsherald.com/articles/2014/01/30/news/doc52eae1fd6fc91296914521.txt

ALLEN PARK — It took the Detroit Lions 11 days to decide a tweet was a credible threat, but Allen Park Police wrapped up an investigation in a matter of hours via an email exchange.

The incident in questionhappened Jan. 16 when Jeff Moss, 41, replied to a tweet sent out byDetroitLions.com website editor Chrissie Wywrot. He asked her to Photoshop an image of Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. and Tim Twentyman, a reporter for DetroitLions.com, in a casket.

Representatives from the team did not respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the incident with Moss, editor of the website, The Detroit Sports Rag.

The full tweet said, @Chrissie5213 Can you make me a PhotoShop of William Clay Ford, Sr. and Tim Twentyman in a casket? Thanks ahead of time.”


A few moments later, Moss sent another tweet asking Wywrot to Photoshop the Lions in the Super Bowl, “since that will never occur in real life.”

Wywrot runs social media accounts for the team. According to a police report, Wywrot told Bill Cory about the tweet. Eleven days after the tweet was posted, Cory called the police and asked them to come to the training facility.

“The week that the Seahawks and the Broncos are preparing for the Superbowl, they are turning their fans into the police for making tasteless jokes,” Moss said. “Then they made a cruiser come out instead of just driving over there. They asked a city that is under an emergency manager and is short staffed in their police department to send out a cruiser.

“Like it was so urgent that I was on my way to the training facility with a meat cleaver to come after an 89-year-old man.”

What makes matters even worse, Moss said, is that the Lions front office staff knows him and that he wouldn’t seriously threaten anyone. The tweets were in response to a Wywrot photo of new coach Jim Caldwell and a birthday cake inserted with Photo Shop.

 

[Grigs Allmoon]

Way to pay attention to the things that matter Lions...

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Moss sent another tweet asking Wywrot to Photoshop the Lions in the Super Bowl, “since that will never occur in real life.”

lol

 

[General Tso]

The guy deserves what he got. In this day and age you can't send messages like that. You'd think a 41 year old who works in the media would know better.

 

[False Start]

The guy deserves what he got. In this day and age you can't send messages like that. You'd think a 41 year old who works in the media would know better.

Freedom of speech? There were no threats, just satire. Political cartoons are allowed but not satire against football teams and players?

 

[fruity pebbles]

Only an idiot would take that seriously.

 

[Donnybrook]

http://thenewsherald.com/articles/2014/01/30/news/doc52eae1fd6fc91296914521.txt

Wywrot runs social media accounts for the team. According to a police report, Wywrot told Bill Cory about the tweet. Eleven days after the tweet was posted, Cory called the police and asked them to come to the training facility.

Bill will be going places in this organization.

 

[False Start]

Why did it take them 11 days to call the police?

 

[MoveToSkypager]

Moss bought a Chevy truck last year. I think this is connected.

 

[ghostguy123]

The guy deserves what he got. In this day and age you can't send messages like that. You'd think a 41 year old who works in the media would know better.

I think they should cut his thumbs off. Ya with me?

 

[msudaisy26]

The real question is when are the season ticket holders going to have the Lions arrested? They are charging prices to that lead you to believe there is an NFL team playing in Detroit every year. That has to be fraud or something.

 

[Slider]

My 16yr old put a tweet up that if the electric company didn't fix the electric (out 4 days) heads would roll. Cops were at the door in 4 hours. I said pretty sure he meant we would freeze at the neck now go find something important. Almost got arrested but they left.

 

[fatness]

All those years of not arresting Matt Millen for destroying a team, and they arrest this guy?