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08-02-2011, 03:58 PM
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Duncan Bannatyne offers £50,000 on Twitter to break a guy's arms
Props to Duncan Bannatyne
Dragon's daughter threatened online - Scotsman.com News
Dragon's daughter threatened online
Published Date: 03 August 2011
Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne has pledged to do everything in his power to ensure a blackmailer targeting his daughter was caught.
Police are investigating after threats were made via email and on Twitter.
The 62-year-old entrepreneur, philanthropist and author used Twitter to offer a £30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person involved.
Durham Police said the threats appeared to originate from an email address based in Russia. A spokesman for the force said: "Durham Constabulary can confirm Duncan Bannatyne has reported a number of threatening messages he had received via email and Twitter in which threats were made against a member of his family.
"These appeared to originate from an email address based in Russia. We have been liaising since then with Mr Bannatyne and conducting inquiries into the credibility of these threats."
Bannatyne, whose business is based in Darlington, issued a statement which said: "My family is well protected but I take any threat to them very seriously and will do all I can to ensure the person or people involved are caught."
Reports said that Bannatyne had deleted tweets after offering a £50,000 reward for anyone who broke the arms of the man issuing the threats.
They said that someone calling himself Yuri Vasilyev tweeted Bannatyne three days ago, saying: "I'm looking for a £35,000 investment to stop us hurting your Hollie Bannatyne. We will bring hurt and pain into your life. We are watching her. She is very attractive. Want photos?"
Bannatyne is said to have told his more than 350,000 Twitter followers: "I offer £25,000 reward for the capture of the coward who calls himself @YuriVasilyev_ Double if his arms are broken first." He added: "I am serious btw (by the way). I think he is in Moscow."
Some Twitter users criticised him for appearing to solicit violence, and he then deleted the tweets and changed his offer to "£30,000 reward for info leading to his arrest", the reports said.
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08-02-2011, 04:01 PM
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Ready to be Man handled by RS!
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Whiny Twitter users complaining he's soliciting violence.
I say good on him for offering up a reward to fuck this asshole up.
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08-02-2011, 05:13 PM
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My homepage has been set to RS
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next up in dragons den..
entry from vancouver, for a beatdown crew.. seeking investment of £25,000 for 1 time beat down...
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08-02-2011, 05:20 PM
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...in the world.
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Good idea. Stupid execution.
You're rich. Do it discretely and not on goddamn Twitter. If you want someone killed, you don't tell the world.
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08-02-2011, 05:35 PM
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Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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if we had this kind of incentive in vancouver, i'm sure the RS beat down crew would actually happen
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08-02-2011, 07:02 PM
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Need to Shave n Shower, but I CANT STOP POSTING ON RS
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Originally Posted by Ronin
Good idea. Stupid execution.
You're rich. Do it discretely and not on goddamn Twitter. If you want someone killed, you don't tell the world.
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He's not trying to put out a hit. He is just trying to reverse the tables on Yuri and let everyone know he's not scared.
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08-02-2011, 07:17 PM
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I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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if we had this kind of incentive in vancouver, i'm sure the RS beat down crew would actually happen
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haha, no, brits (especially scots) are crazy, vancouverites are pussies - you have it the wrong way round
i saw said tweet, good on him, you don't mess with doogan's family
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08-02-2011, 07:21 PM
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...in the world.
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Originally Posted by Manic!
He's not trying to put out a hit. He is just trying to reverse the tables on Yuri and let everyone know he's not scared.
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Well, he should. What he's doing is stupid. He could let those guys know he's not scared when he's pulling out their eyes.
If I had money and someone threatened my kids, those guys would be dead before I could type 140 characters.
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08-02-2011, 07:28 PM
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Need to Shave n Shower, but I CANT STOP POSTING ON RS
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Originally Posted by Ronin
Well, he should. What he's doing is stupid. He could let those guys know he's not scared when he's pulling out their eyes.
If I had money and someone threatened my kids, those guys would be dead before I could type 140 characters.
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I'm pretty sure he's doing a lot more and for all we know Yuri could be some 12 year old kid.
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