Wired has an article of a man arrested in Oklahoma for making threatening Tweets.

An Oklahoma City man who announced on Twitter that he would turn an April 15 tax protest into a bloodbath was hit with a federal charge of making interstate threats last week, in what appears to be first criminal prosecution to stem from posts on the microblogging site.

Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a “war” against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city’s version of the national “Tea Party” protests promoted by the conservative-leaning Fox News.

“START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!,” read a tweet at 8:01 PM that day. “After I am killed on the Capitol Steps, like a REAL man, the rest of you will REMEMBER ME!!!,” he added five minutes later. Then: “Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off the heads and throw the[m] on the State Capitol steps.”

The FBI arrested him at his home later that day, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma City, which otherwise declined to comment on the case.

Makes me miss the crazies of my home state (where is that stupid tear emoticon?) Don’t get me wrong, Texas has it’s fair share of rednecks, but I live in a bubble down here that shelters me from all the fun. The interesting thing is how this will play out in court since the threats were with Twitter. It does go on to say that the judge released him to a half-way house later that day, leading me to believe the threats weren’t that creditable in the first place.

(Via Wired)