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Police arrest gun fanatic after using internet 'urban dictionary' to decipher slang death threats
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 16:52 EST, 3 September 2011
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Police used an online urban dictionary to decipher incomprehensible death threats sent posted on the Facebook page of a gun store.
Justin Kemble, 27, was arrested for threatening to 'murk' a gun store worker after he posted the threats on the company's profile page.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched the slang decoder, to discover that murk means to beat someone so badly that they die of their injuries.
Conflict: One of Justin Kemble's guns was confiscated before the threat
Kemble had come into the Midwest Gun Exchange in Indiana and asked an employee if it was a problem that his gun's serial number was filed off.
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The store reported Kemble and his illegal firearm was confiscated.
At the time the weapons fanatic ranted on his Facebook: 'ATF just took 1 of my guns :('.
Lost in translation: Police used an urban dictionary to decipher the slang
Several months later Kemble posted on the Facebook page of the gun shop :'That 1 f-- in there got my pistol confiscated, i got plenty of other guns but i want to murk that c--er.'
Turning to Urban Dictionary for a translation police found out that 'murk' means 'to physically beat someone so severely, they end up dying from their injuries.
Kemble was later arrested, according to a US District Court complaint.
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Police arrest gun fanatic after using internet 'urban dictionary' to decipher slang death threats
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 16:52 EST, 3 September 2011
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Police used an online urban dictionary to decipher incomprehensible death threats sent posted on the Facebook page of a gun store.
Justin Kemble, 27, was arrested for threatening to 'murk' a gun store worker after he posted the threats on the company's profile page.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched the slang decoder, to discover that murk means to beat someone so badly that they die of their injuries.
Conflict: One of Justin Kemble's guns was confiscated before the threat
Kemble had come into the Midwest Gun Exchange in Indiana and asked an employee if it was a problem that his gun's serial number was filed off.
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The store reported Kemble and his illegal firearm was confiscated.
At the time the weapons fanatic ranted on his Facebook: 'ATF just took 1 of my guns :('.
Lost in translation: Police used an urban dictionary to decipher the slang
Several months later Kemble posted on the Facebook page of the gun shop :'That 1 f-- in there got my pistol confiscated, i got plenty of other guns but i want to murk that c--er.'
Turning to Urban Dictionary for a translation police found out that 'murk' means 'to physically beat someone so severely, they end up dying from their injuries.
Kemble was later arrested, according to a US District Court complaint.
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Police arrest gun fanatic after using internet 'urban dictionary' to decipher slang death threats
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