‘We’ll sue you if you take beach oil’: Fake Twitter account bites into BP

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WASHINGTON -- The Twitter account claims to be that of British Petroleum's public relations department but the messages are a little bit, well, odd for a company battling a massive oil spill.

"Please do NOT take or clean any oil you find on the beach. That is the property of British Petroleum and we WILL sue you," reads one "tweet" from the account @BPGlobalPR.

"If we had a dollar for every complaint about this oil spill, it wouldn't compare to our current fortune. Oil is a lucrative industry!" says another.

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Other messages on @BPGlobalPR:

- "The good news: Mermaids are real. The bad news: They are now extinct."

- "The ocean looks just a bit slimmer today. Dressing it in black really did the trick!"

- "Thousands of people are attacked by sea creatures every year. We at BP are dedicated to bringing that number down. You're welcome!"


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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/well-sue-beach-oil-fake-twitter-account-bites-bp/



Um, maybe it's me but I don't think this is helpful or funny.