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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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1 posted on 12/19/2013 2:15:28 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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2 posted on 12/19/2013 2:17:25 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

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


3 posted on 12/19/2013 2:28:17 AM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Wow! That thing looks dangerous! Made of rubber and used to gently blow dust from a camera lens, it could be used to act as a missile. Kind of like how a muzzie could convince an 88 year old granny to use her knitting needles to take over a plane.

Yep. I see the logic.

4 posted on 12/19/2013 2:31:17 AM PST by Wingy
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

For too many people, fantasy is reality. There is no logical thought process with these TSAers. It is image over substance—quite a racket for these union grifters.


5 posted on 12/19/2013 2:36:18 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Looks like an armor piercing mortar round to me.
6 posted on 12/19/2013 2:38:25 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

Looks like it just might get up enough kinetic energy to viciously rip through a center wing tank.


7 posted on 12/19/2013 3:06:48 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: Conspiracy Guy; SWAMPSNIPER
Theoretically, then, I could use Pinky as a spear.


8 posted on 12/19/2013 3:08:46 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: Conspiracy Guy
Looks like an armor piercing mortar round to me.

You're partly right, Conspiracy Guy. It's actually a Glock AK-47 assault sniper high-powered armor piercing weapon of mass destruction spray and pray battle rifle that has no place in our children's schools.

9 posted on 12/19/2013 3:13:39 AM PST by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: Salamander

Heaven help you if you ever get pulled over and your snake pokes its head out of the window in the cop’s face. :)


10 posted on 12/19/2013 3:19:30 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That’s a hoot. TSA employees are as stupid is as Obama does.


11 posted on 12/19/2013 3:24:27 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Proof (as if it were needed) that they don’t hire these people for their intellect. Lowest common denominator + guns + permission to get as personally invasive as they think they can get away with + perpetual employment guarantee. What could possibly go wrong?


12 posted on 12/19/2013 3:45:10 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

These people (TSA) are, by far, the stupidest a-holes on the planet!


13 posted on 12/19/2013 3:49:28 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Salamander

Spear or a hula hoop.


14 posted on 12/19/2013 4:16:22 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: Standing Wolf

I need me one of them there Glock AK 47s. Do they have USB port to recharge my Android?


15 posted on 12/19/2013 4:19:17 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

“Photographer Has Blower Confiscated by TSA Because it ‘Could Fly Like a Missile’”

Besides which, some TSA agent decided he needed it and wanted it.


16 posted on 12/19/2013 4:33:14 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: jonrick46

“There is no logical thought process with these TSAers”.

Actually, that is the first question on the application test. If you have no logical thought process, you automatically pass and don’t have to go any futher except to get measured for your new uniform. (sarc)


17 posted on 12/19/2013 4:51:00 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: lowbridge

And was too cheap to pay a few bucks.

Stories like this are why I don’t want to fly and take a camera along.


18 posted on 12/19/2013 4:58:48 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I have to fly tomorrow.

I have stripped down, bathed, washed my hair, changed purses, washed all my clothes, and packed everything in a new satchel, because the last time i flew, I was put through a body search.

Evidently, everything I own SMELLS like I have just been to the range.


19 posted on 12/19/2013 4:58:50 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

An Enema Bomb?


20 posted on 12/19/2013 4:59:19 AM PST by Vinnie
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