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Have we seen the last tweet from "David Mabus"?

David Mabus' arrest by Montreal Police marks a significant turn in the saga of his anti-skeptic diatribes. Will justice prevail?

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Incredibly, it looks like the long, long story of David Mabus may be drawing to a close. He is notorious in the skeptic community: for years he has posted comments, emailed, and tweeted anti-skeptic and anti-atheist diatribes, mostly incoherent. I would commonly see many spam tweets from him filling my feed, sometimes over a dozen a day. It was very irritating, but that was all. However, more recently his spam escalated into death threats. I've received them myself. When I got them I contacted the local sheriff's office, but since Mabus (a pseudonym) lives in Canada, I couldn't make much progress. The same was true for many other skeptics as well. But then things changed... and I'll let you read Tim Farley's post about how it all came about. Tim gives an astonishingly detailed and thorough account of what happened. There are copious links and images there to give you ...

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