[Updated April 14, 2024 8:33 p.m PST] The girl has been arrested at her home by Dutch police in Rotterdam, Netherlands. A spokesperson told BusinessInsider:
We’re not in a state that we can communicate any state of charges at this point. We just thought it was necessary to bring this out mostly because of the fact that it caused a great deal of interest on the Internet.
On Sunday morning, a twitter account belonging to a 14-year-old girl named Sarah from the Netherlands tweeted the following at American Airlines:
To which American Airlines responded:
Sarah started backpedaling immediately:
@AmericanAir omfg I was kidding
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@AmericanAir I’m so sorry I’m scared now
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@AmericanAir I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@AmericanAir I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@AmericanAir I was kidding pls don’t I’m just a girl pls
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@AmericanAir and I’m not from Afghanistan
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
@seizeavons @AmericanAir yeah I know, and my parents are gonna kill me if I tell them this omg pls
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Why would I blow up one of your planes, I have my own jet @AmericanAir
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
She even tried to seek help from Demi Lovato:
Demi what would you do in this kind of situation? @ddlovato https://t.co/Hx5wJZm5kI
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Demi save me
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
She then decided to bask in her glory of getting a rush of new followers
Wow bc of this I gained 1k followers
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Over 2000 RTs what
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Omg I gained 3k followers today
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Over 20k followers yay
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
22k followers 😀
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
I had like 11k followers 3 hours ago and now I have more than 24k
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
At least she’s smart enough to realize a potential business opportunity:
I’m selling my account
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Let’s start with 500 dollars
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
At the end of the day, she offered the following explanation:
Okay guys this is the truth (cont) pic.twitter.com/lGNvzBIh90
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
(Cont) second part pic.twitter.com/05P0EA8Its
— demetria (@QueenDemetriax_) April 13, 2014
Editors note: Unfortunately, the twitter account is now suspended. For those of you interested in knowing her explanation, she basically said that she had the initial tweet written a months ago, but decided it was too dumb to post, so it was automatically saved to drafts. She then claims that the tweet was accidentally sent through her phone Sunday morning.
Fin.