Posted on 02/20/2008 3:44:16 PM PST by jdm
He forgot it was there: TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book.
TAMPA A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said.
About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration. When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled Fear Itself. The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.
After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates. Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.
Officers found books in the backpack titled Muhammad in the Bible, The Prophets Prayer and The Noble Quran. He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.
Several sheets of paper in the backpack included rap lyrics that referred to police, narcotics, weapons and killing. Baines told officers he is a rapper who writes his own lyrics and that rap music writers need to play the part, the report states.
Bad, bad idea. Waterboard him first.
Give this man an award for funniest statement of the year.
I hope he isn’t related to Harold.
somebody please waterboard his ass to find out what he is really up to...
On Sunday, Baines was scheduled to fly Southwest Airlines Flight 338 to Jacksonville at 7:45 a.m., then catch another plane to Las Vegas,Remember this Southwest airlines passenger from the same day? LAX 'hoax' suspect in court today
Donovan Wenger, 37, who is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention in downtown Los Angeles, is scheduled to make his initial appearance before a federal judge at 2 p.m., said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
I think you're being supercritical. But I would have no objection to waterboarding him one or twice before he is put to death. Maybe if he sings real good we could even wait a couple of months to make sure we got all we could before supplying the coup de grâce.
ML/NJ
Security should just shoot him and say they “forgot it was loaded”.
Not the sharpest crayon in the box. Did he really think that paper prevents x-rays from penetrating?
Hmmmm.
He probably dog-ears the pages to mark his place too.
Yeah, he went to all that trouble to hollow out the book, then forgot about it. Sure. Thanks for the ping, looks like a recent convert to Islam.
Damned good idea. This guy was up to no good. Glad to see TSA give a good account of itself.
I know a lot of people who would welcome meeting this guy with a boxcutter on a plane. They should let a few of these guys get through every once in a while - just to show what happens.
Yup. That ought to do it. When he gets out Rap will have 'moved-on.'
More commentary here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020040.php#comments
Thanks to Robert Spencer and the great posters at jihadwatch.
Give this man an award for funniest statement of the year.
Hey, give him a break, everyone knows that a good boxcutter is hard to find in Vegas.
I did. It seemed like the prudent thing to do at the time...
Keepin' it real. Representin'.
Obviously a set-up by Rove & Bush to instill fear in the public and elect McCain over the softy dems.
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