Fines Against Passengers Draw Fire

FOX NEWS ^ | March 12, 2004 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

[Reelect President Dubya]

I used to fly five or six times a year.

Last year I had to fly once.

This year I will not fly at all.

This way I won't trouble and TSA goons.

Lots cheaper too.

[Mulder]

Any idea what the penalty would be for a 22lr shell lost in the lining of a coat? My guess is that it would involve free room and board in Club Fed!

For 'only' a 22LR, they might let you off the hook with a few years probation so long as you act as a whore for the BATFags by going around to gunshows and entrapping unwitting Americans.

[Trickyguy]

Surely, morons like Ms Steak Knife understand that her carelessness results in loss of productivity for all those standing behind and beside her. $300.00 sounds cheap.

Did you even graduate high school?

[Mulder]

I detest flying post-9/11 so much that I drove from coast-to-coast last year instead of subject myself to the Sovietized airports.

[ASA Vet]

My guess is that it would involve free room and board in Club Fed

What would happen if everyone of those hardened criminals
entered a not guilty plea and demanded a jury trail?

[af_vet_1981]

I’m no threat to the government,” said Campbell, the deputy director of the National Immigration Law Center

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Who is she trying to kid ?

[jwalsh07]

Did you even graduate high school?

You pick a subject, any subject. We'll discuss it and when we're done you'll realize how even a non high school graduate is 5 standard deviations above you on the Bell Curve.

[jwalsh07]

This second statement of yours just nullified your first statement that I commented on.

Should I replay the down from the original yard line?

[NYCVirago]

Hmmm... if she were flying on 9/11 with her steak knife, and managed to kill a couple of islamofreaks with her evil "weapon", I think you and others here would be applauding her for bravery.(Too bad everyone didn't have a steak knife on 9/11) Now she is merely an "idiot" for breaking some bueracratic edict.

I guess you missed the part about her whining publicly about how the evil government mistreated her for enforcing their rules, and how she's so angry at having to pay a $300 fine for this that shes publicly complaining about it. This woman is no hero.

[NYCVirago]

Maybe we should start concentration camps for the "morons".

Maybe you should learn how to argue without using over-the-top Nazi references.

[NYCVirago]

Sounds like something my wife would do- or a lot of women I know. My wife usually has a couple of scalpels on her person as well. People carry all manner of things.

You must run with an interesting crowd, as I've never met a woman who carries a steak knife or a scalpel in her purse.

[Mulder]

This woman is no hero.

Of course she isn't.

But she isn't necessarily an idiot either, nor does she deserve a $300 fine.

[Geritol]

"tweezers and nail clippers are not prohibited"

"True, not anymore, but they were 2 years ago, and they may be again on beaurocratic whim.

[NYCVirago]

My wife carries a steak knife in her purse. She works in a hospital. She often gets an apple or orange from the cafeteria to eat on break. The cafeteria doesn't like people take out their silverware. And if she leaves the knife in her desk, it invariabily walks off. Since she has done this for years, it would be very possible for her to accidently take it to the airport in her purse if she flew.

Would your wife throw a hissy fit like this woman did, and then publicly complain afterwards about the indignity of it all?

[Prodigal Son]

You must run with an interesting crowd, as I've never met a woman who carries a steak knife or a scalpel in her purse.

Hmmm. When I was a kid, I regularly carried kitchen utensils to school to eat my lunch. If my wife grabs something to eat and take with her that requires cutting, what's she supposed to do? Eat with her hands? A knife is just a tool. A handy one at that.

Also, my wife is a surgeon. She keeps a scalpel handy. What's so unusual about this? She's always got medical stuff in her pockets.

[KingofQue]

You must be flying to a reciprical state

[Admin Moderator]

Please do not address agitator again as requested.

[Cultural Jihad]

That he who says "As far as I'm concerned, let the airlines go out of business" does not want to addressed by me, is okay with me!