Posted on 12/02/2011 3:54:44 AM PST by Daffynition
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport.
Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag.
Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.
"It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it," Gibbs said.
But her preference for the pistol style didn't sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.
Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.
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Mucking forons.
I hear ya. I am heartbroken at what I am leaving my grandchild. ;(
I have found that the Norfolk Airport is the place that has far and away the most draconian enforcement of the “Perceived” rules.
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Understandable.
Norfolk has a lot of Military retirees and home to a large US Naval Installation and we all know that the heart of the Terrorist Movement is the Military.
Don’t FLAME, me, check with J Nazipolitano and some of our other esteemed ‘leaders’.
As to flying, airlines and airports have treated the customer like chattel long before 9/11.
One would get the impression they were ‘paying’ the customer to fly.
9/11 just allowed the government to get involved more and allow the airlines to treat the passengers like crap and now had the backing of the government agents.
ROFLMAO - LOL !!!
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