Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport, charged with having bomb-making materials

Foxnews ^

[ConservativeMan55]

A Southern California man was arrested at Oakland International Airport after security officers found him wearing an unusual watch they said could be used to make a timing device for a bomb, authorities said Friday.

[dalereed]

That’s a photo of my phone!!!

[publius911]

McGann told Transportation Security Administration officers that he’s an artist and the watch is art, Nelson said.

Wonderful!
By executuve order, soon we will be obligated to ignore them and not refer to them as mass-murdering terrorists ---- they are now Artists of the Exploding Art Persuasion...

[publius911]

I can’t believe the morons posting on this thread. Ignorance must be truly bliss.

[publius911]

That N00B nutcase is the best argument to prevent new "Freepers" from actually posting anything for about the first 5 years of membership!

GHEEZ!

[bigheadfred]

That’s a photo of my phone!!!

My God...I’m a bomb making terrorist!

I have a GREAT IDEA for a NEW TV SHOW!!!!!

[eak3]

The guy needs to be charged with being a complete moron. What he did is no different than yelling fire in a crowded theater.

[Hardraade]

Must be saturday.

Some of you boys have serious mental problems. Try and sleep them off.

[Slings and Arrows]

I agree. They determined he wasn’t a threat but charged him anyway because they didn’t “like” what he had on him.

Contempt of Cop, to be met with Punishment by Process.

[Hardraade]

You want a piece of me, sc*m?

Why are you still a registered democrat, while running around posing as a knuckledragger caricature of a Teapartier?

Oh my. I think I caught a live one ;).

[1010RD]

Nope, they didn’t like the next day’s headline and the civil suits to follow.

[smokingfrog]

That, or possibly a dry run. The bomb making material charge seems over the top though.

[1010RD]

“What reasonable person would take those items into an airport in this day and age?”

[1010RD]

“What reasonable person would take those items into an airport in this day and age?”

[Pontiac]

I think if they really want to make the charge stick they should have to show that the watch actually could function as a detonator timer.

I think at best the man should be charge with inciting panic or creating a public nuisance.

[EEGator]

Yes I read it. There was no real crime committed. I can see them not allowing him to fly, arresting him is BS.

[EEGator]

Am I going to Gitmo now?

[madison10]

Probably just an artsy watch. If he’d been wearing robes and a turban they would have let him through for sure.

[seowulf]

I’ve got a $12.88 watch from Wal-Mart.

I wonder if that’ll get me a beat down from TSA.

[dinodino]

TSA are complete f*cking retards.

[HiTech RedNeck]

yeah, art he said. i agree, performance art: the art of looking like a jackass. and naturally the tsa was jealous because they want a monopoly on the art of being a jackass in an airport.