Posted on 09/14/2009 2:32:05 PM PDT by ropin71
What do a live baby alli gator, a gassed-up chain saw and a 6-foot-long Afri can spear have in com mon? They're all illegal carry- on items that airline pas sengers tried to get through security.
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“Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
Gross, but I’m not sure how someone would hijack a plane with them.
Doesn’t everyone fly with a dildo in their carry on.....
Requirements for homemade Cajun stew?
I don’t see adult toys on that list...LOL
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Does the Pope know about the nun chucks? Looks like they had a whole bunch of confiscated extra spaces too. But they made their escape from the stash and hid out in the article, hoping not to be noticed.
ROFL, he's damned lucky that was all that was seized!
Interestingly, experience has taught me that the NYC airports operate under their own 3 inch rule. Other airports are following the "no blades of any length" rule that is still officially posted on the TSA website. Put one of those little pocket pen knives with a one-inch bladed knife in plain view on your keychain that you've dumped into the open bin, and it will go on through NYC airport security without comment (even while they're efficiently spotting and confiscating bottles of water or soda hidden in people's bags). Trying to bring it back from wherever you flew to is a whole different story, even if it's buried in your bag. I don't know if the NYC TSA staff is just too New Yorky to put up with the silliness of confiscating 1 inch blades (after all, you're free to carry a little mirror on board, and if you want a sharp little weapon to do mischief with, you can just break it after you're on board), or if the rest of the TSA staff including the head office people who do the website just didn't get the memo.
a 6-foot-long Afri can spear what?
I snuck a water bottle full of cognac through
last weekend, and it didn’t involve ‘internal
storage’.
They don’t catch everything, of course. The eagle-eye in a non-NYC-airport-which-shall-not-be-named who ferreted through my briefcase and triumphantly plucked a pen knife out of a cluttered make-up bag and confiscated it, missed another one that was in much plainer view on a key ring floating around loose in the bottom of the briefcase. Who knows which one the X-ray screener had actually spotted, but the ferret was sent in to find one pen knife, and that’s what he found. I probably could have had a grenade in there, and he’d still have come away with one pen knife, and only one pen knife. I think the X-ray screeners are better-trained/sharper than the manual bag searchers.
and who is the guy who decides if they are unwashed? ewww
One hopes its was lashed down muzzle first!
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