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Photographer Has Blower Confiscated by TSA Because it ‘Could Fly Like a Missile’
PETAPIXEL ^ | DEC 18,2013 | DL CADE

Posted on 12/19/2013 2:15:28 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER

It’s common knowledge that the Giottos Rocket Blowers and the TSA don’t get along. In the past we’ve told you to just leave it at home unless you want it confiscated with no more reason than “it looks like a bomb.” But the reason photographer and Canon Rumors forum user Surapon got was a whole lot more entertaining than that.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: blower; tsa
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To: Salamander

“Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky?”


21 posted on 12/19/2013 5:08:49 AM PST by EricT. (ARBEIT MACHT FREI- now get back to work you taxpaying peasant!)
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To: PLMerite

I knew a guy that happened to.

He thought he had killed a chicken snake that he was going to make a belt out of.

Snake wasn’t dead and climbed on him biting him.

He was weaving all over the road and was stopped by a cop.

He got out of his truck and the cop pulled his gun, a .357mag, and told him to get back in.

He told the cop there was a snake in his truck.

The cop opened the door and the snake was coiled up on the floor.

The cop went to shooting.

Snake got away unhurt but his truck didn’t make it.

Cop shot his transmission to pieces and he ended up in jail.


22 posted on 12/19/2013 5:32:30 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Or...I could just wear her as a boa.

;]


23 posted on 12/19/2013 5:46:03 AM PST by Salamander (Hey, Jack the Ripper, won't you come on over... hook me up to the power lines of your love...)
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To: EricT.

Ha ha ha!!!

It definitely fits her.

[and I’m always planning to take over the universe, so...]


24 posted on 12/19/2013 5:47:27 AM PST by Salamander (Hey, Jack the Ripper, won't you come on over... hook me up to the power lines of your love...)
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To: IMR 4350

!!!


25 posted on 12/19/2013 5:49:25 AM PST by Salamander (Hey, Jack the Ripper, won't you come on over... hook me up to the power lines of your love...)
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To: Vinnie

my thought also Fleets enema could also be a mini douche. Just like liberals in congress


26 posted on 12/19/2013 7:10:42 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Nik Naym

TSA agents are quite simply some of the stupidest people in the world.

————————— ————————— —————————

Back when Tom Ridge was setting TSA up and they had to remove the H.S. Diploma because they weren’t getting enough hires, TSA were nick-named...

...wait for it...

“Ridge’s Retards.”


27 posted on 12/19/2013 8:29:01 AM PST by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Wingy
Kind of like how a muzzie could convince an 88 year old granny to use her knitting needles to take over a plane.

...They have to be careful with those needles! She may knit an Afghan!

28 posted on 12/19/2013 8:56:35 AM PST by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms!)
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To: folkquest
They have to be careful with those needles! She may knit an Afghan!

Lol! Good one.

29 posted on 12/19/2013 9:44:50 AM PST by Wingy
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To: Salamander

Too cliché.


30 posted on 12/19/2013 9:53:01 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

just use a blower fashioned as a dildo and slather it with KY.

Drop it into a plastic and then act all sheepish when they go to examine it.


31 posted on 12/19/2013 9:58:06 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Heh.

;]


32 posted on 12/19/2013 10:01:10 AM PST by Salamander (Hey, Jack the Ripper, won't you come on over... hook me up to the power lines of your love...)
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To: IMR 4350

I had about a 5 foot Bull Snake which was supposed to be in a bag in the truck one time. I stopped for fuel at which point the snake proceeded to wind itself around the clutch and brake pedals. A guy was studying me as I am trying to unwind the snake and finally asks “did you know he was in there?”

Had him for several years. I named him SVL (Snake, Very Large)


33 posted on 12/19/2013 10:13:27 AM PST by Clay Moore ("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: IMR 4350

“Cop shot his transmission to pieces and he ended up in jail.”

I would imagine that was to cover up somehow for the cop being trigger-happy.


34 posted on 12/19/2013 10:36:10 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: IMR 4350; Salamander; Clay Moore

This is what inspired my earlier comment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJt28XRAlLM


35 posted on 12/19/2013 10:40:14 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite

LOL!

Not gonna happen.

Boas are never in a hurry unless food is involved.

Odds are pretty good that a cop is not gonna have a dead rat in his hand if he pulls me over.


36 posted on 12/19/2013 10:45:10 AM PST by Salamander (Hey, Jack the Ripper, won't you come on over... hook me up to the power lines of your love...)
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To: left that other site

Been there. Apparently, some of the chemicals in make-up show up as gunpowder.


37 posted on 12/19/2013 10:51:56 AM PST by esoteric
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To: PLMerite

His truck couldn’t pass inspection so his inspection sticker was expired.

Expired license plates.

Reckless driving. The truck was nothing but junk. You couldn’t keep it in one lane even without fighting a snake.

He was also about half drunk from what I remember.

I don’t even know if he had a drivers license or he had lost it for DWI.

The cop did everyone a favor and put the truck out of it’s misery and kept him off the road.


38 posted on 12/19/2013 10:53:39 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: esoteric

I do wear make-up, but I think it IS because I DO go to the range! LOL!


39 posted on 12/19/2013 10:54:53 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Clay Moore

A guy I was in high school with got bit by a copperhead when he climbed into his truck.

The rubber boot on his stick shift was off and 2 copperheads had climbed into the cab.

Lucky he had boots on or both snakes would have got him more than once.


40 posted on 12/19/2013 11:07:28 AM PST by IMR 4350
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