Oh, good grief...................
Posted on 12/09/2013 9:21:24 AM PST by moonshinner_09
"Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis.
Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday.
May has a small business selling unique sock monkey dolls. She says she and her husband were on their way from St. Louis to Sea-Tac and she had a couple of monkeys and sewing supplies with her in a carry-on bag.
“His pistol was in there,” she says of the sock monkey “Rooster Monkburn,” a take-off on John Wayne character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film “True Grit.”
May and her husband were going through the screening process when she noticed that one of her bags was missing.
“And the (TSA agent) held it up and said ‘whose is this?’” she said. “I realized oh, my God this is my bag.”
May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and found the two-inch long pistol.“She said ‘this is a gun,’” said May. “I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey.”
“She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’” said May.
The TSA agent told May she would have to confiscate the tiny gun and was supposed to call the police. “I said well go ahead,” said May. “And I said really? You’re kidding me right, and she said no it looks like a gun.” “She took my monkey’s gun,” said May, who has retained her sense of humor.
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Oh, good grief...................
Good think they didn’t take/find my pen gun. (humor, sarc)
Remember what Tom Dashole once said:
You can’t professionalize unless you federalize................
Never argue with a Marxist just take action against them.
Good thing we have these “professionals” in charge of our security.
Where would we be without them?
Reminds me of the book by Lewis Grizzard, “Shoot Low Sheriff, They’re Riding Shetlands”.
You can't train stupid.
And the media finds it virtually incomprehensible that a TSA agent was shot by a malcontent at LAX.
Zero tolerance relieves people from the burden of thought.
Is this a picture of the sock monkey or the TSA agent?
That monkey needs a good spanking.
I have a grandaughter over and she was watching Tom & Jerry which would be banned by the PC crowd today . I’d bet there were at least 20 “episodes of violence” in that 7 min cartoon. My our society has become oversensitive wienies nowadays.
Please don’t insult the sock monkey.............
Although I am not the Sockmonkey whose revolver was confiscated, I find this deeply disturbing. Obviously the TSA has as a job requirement low IQ’s.
At some point, the job requirements changed from, remove genuine threats to people who are taking the flight to, “Kids! Let’s play a real life 3-D game of find anything that looks like a gn in this picture!”
From your cold fuzzy hands?..............................
Our ‘society’ has become Idiocracy.............Life imitates art...............
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