Posted on 03/21/2013 10:31:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON, - The Transportation Security Administration said a woman didn't know her cane contained a sword until she went through an X-ray machine at a Washington airport.
The TSA said the machine picked up something strange about the woman's cane Monday at Washington Dulles International Airport and officers discovered the knob unscrewed to reveal a sword, WUSA-TV, Washington, reported Thursday.
TSA officials said the woman had purchased the cane at an antique store and was unaware of the concealed weapon. She was allowed to continue on to her flight -- without the cane.
Cold Steel has those. They’re SO cool looking...
They make those now and knives too out of carbon fiber, sharp as steel, stronger than steel, lighter than steel and totally transparent on xray, metal detectors and imaging scanners.
These idiots took my kids skateboard wrench, years ago but let him take the skate board on.
Which would you rather get clonked with?
TSA is insane.
A can of soda in a gym sock is a formidable weapon.
I think, now that I live in a free state, I might just scrounge up the money and buy one.
Maybe.
(Now accepting donations?) Ha!
Damn thieves. I bet the TSA union goons divide all the booty they steal (and the loose change that people leave that adds up).
What is that right below the brass kunckles? I know what it looks like, but it can’t be that.
It’s described in the Code of Virginia. . .
“any flailing instrument consisting of two or more rigid parts connected in such a manner as to allow them to swing freely, which may be known as a nun chahka, nun chuck, nunchaku, shuriken, or fighting chain;”
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-308
I wouldn’t worry about the blade so much as I would worry about the handle. That looks like something you use to shatter glass. At 37,000 feet, knocking out a window would be more devastating then trying to swing a sword.
Hahahahaha ...you too I see. I saw that and couldn't believe my eyes. As a martial artist, I know what nunchakus look like, and those are not nunchakus. I am talking about the item below the knuckle-dusters, to the side of the tear gas sprays, and directly above the kubotan/yari stick. They look - exactly - like something used for certain sexual acts of a anterior/posterior nature. Maybe the TSA is trying to be funny, but whatever those are they are not nunchakus.
Forget about the blade, that would be a war hammer to anybody except TSA, which seemed only mildly suspicious to them. I guess TSA has never even perused orthopedic supply catalogs to see what normal canes look like. Or know how to spot the simple modification to a regular cane to turn it into a martial-arts weapon. :)
are you inferring this is a photo of the cane in the article?
That's Hollywood...
:-/
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