Posted on 04/04/2002 6:50:19 AM PST by SLB
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - (AP) -- Three passengers in their 70s were arrested and later released in separate incidents at Palm Beach International Airport for allegedly trying to board flights while carrying knives.
Security screeners found the knives in carry-on luggage during routine checks early Wednesday, airport sheriff's deputies said.
Authorities charged each traveler with carrying a concealed weapon, a first-degree misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to a year in the county jail and a $1,000 fine. The FBI declined to press federal charges.
According to sheriff's records, Harold Shepard, 71, of New York, told deputies he was not carrying knives. Officers said they arrested Shepard after finding a knife with a 7 ½-inch blade in a box that was taped shut. He was later released from jail on $250 bond.
In the other incidents, Elizabeth Napleton, 76, of Illinois, and Stanley Reinhart, 79, of California, were issued notices to appear in court and allowed to board their flights. Authorities did not release their hometowns.
Napleton told deputies that she had meant to check the briefcase containing the knives, but later decided to bring it on the plane, authorities said.
Reinhart was stopped while carrying a steak knife with a 5-inch blade packed in his shaving kit, authorities said. Reinhart said he had just driven across the country and had kept the knife to cut his food while he was staying in hotels.
I am just glad that I got to work early enough this morning that I was the only one in the office at the time. :-)
Thanks Laz
LOL! That's a riot! And I'm sure you can mail order them, from TAPCO or someone similar.
I carry this just about everywhere I go:
I feel naked without it's presence in my strong-side back pocket; it's there now. I carried it on numerous commercial flights before 9/11. Knives aren't the issue. The people we let in our country, and on our aircraft, are.
Won't stop a bomb in the luggage, but would stop all threat of people on the plane. It is where I think this will have to go. IMO
Good. Now you're thinking outside the box.
two scenarios
1) one or two armed nutjobs vs. 200 unarmed victims
2) one or two armed nutjobs vs. 200 armed citizens
How long will it take before people realize that the idea disarming the public is based on the theory that the good guys are in the minority?
And yes, sometimes the dragon wins.
What's the matter with you? Have you no mind? Or is this sarcasm?
I remember rding my bike out to a friends house to hunt pheasants when I was about 14 or 15. I carried a single shot Iver Johnson 16 ga across the handlebars. Can you imagine what would happen in today's society if that was tried? The parents would never see the light of day again.
Yup,the local police would call in a air strike on you,and then have their SWAT team shoot at your dead body until they ran out of ammunition.
The parents would never see the light of day again.
You're right. The police would charge them with YOUR death,after they got through killing you.
Some middle management dolt has to have numbers on paper to point to, to "prove" they are not a "raciest" when they search, according to the facts and COMMON SENSE, the most likely suspects.
Of course, never mind the fact that the entire NATION is being pumped into a cesspool of "politically correct" COMMUNIST LIES, by abiding by such "politically correct" bullshit and the very thing that made this Nation great is (was) it's aversion to such "politically correct" bullshit.
THAT is why the left is pushing so hard and acting so "offended" when an AMERICAN stand up, points a finger at a snot nosed whiny liberal and pronounces is a clear loud voice that YES the communist agenda "liberals" (democrats) are in fact trying to feminize this nation. That is the only way they can defeat us as it is pretty clear to anyone with a lick of common sense that any attempt to disarm Americans through usurpation of the Second Amendment will only result in AR2.
Thanks for listening...
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