Posted on 06/20/2024 10:51:43 AM PDT by DFG
The TSA doesn’t want you to have a blast this summer.
Two passengers were busted at the Pittsburgh International Airport on Wednesday when they tried to bring a smoke grenade and an inert explosives grenade aboard their respective flights, according to the TSA.
TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said agents first came across a man who thought he could pass the security checkpoint while carrying a hand grenade in his bags.
“Most people plan on having a blast on their trip, but this guy wasn’t thinking along those lines when @TSA officers intercepted this grenade at the @PITairport checkpoint yesterday,” Farbstein wrote on X about the grenade.
“Fortunately it was inert, however grenades, live or inert are not allowed on planes,” she reminded travelers.
But it seemed like not everyone got the memo as Farbstein flagged another incident an hour later, where a customer was carrying an active M18 smoke grenade in their carry-on bag.
“Had it been triggered, thick yellow smoke would have been everywhere!” Farbstein said. “Yellow is just not a good look.
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Spokesperson is joking about a potential disaster.
Funny they avoid naming the perps.
Odds at least one was named Mohammed?
What an idiotic thing to do.
10 Years for stupidity or for attempting to hijack a plane for nefarious purposes. Nothing less than at least 60 months.
I’m sure he was just testing out the security
She may have tried to be light about it on Twitter after the fact. But, there are steps that need to be taken when this comes thru security - inert or not. And that definitely inconvenienced everyone in the security line.
what do they call that when jihadi’s do it? Dry run?
Dry run for the real attack?
The next grenade will be the real thing - not just smoke.
And how come we're NOT told the names of the people and if they're illegals? I'm guessing illegals from the Middle East. Thanks crooked FBI and Biden's goons and thugs - keep looking for that white middle class middle aged Christian 'lone wolf'... effing idiots.,
Yup—run them through twenty airports.
It could be eighteen of them missed it.
Are they now on the no-fly list?
When it happens we can thank President Sniffer for opening the borders to any and all people wanting to damage our country and kill our people.
And we can thank the corrupt FBI and Biden's goons and thugs for wasting time looking for white middle aged Christian 'lone wolves'. Hey FBI you were put on a wild goose chase for a reason - and you fell for it.
A test for future ‘bursts’. Planes have been known to hit buildings.
What next, DTT? The leftist have invited murderers into our country without any vetting.
You’d be surprised how often crazy things like this happen. A smoke grenade isnt common. But, inert ones.., more than you realize.
What made it even worse tho, is they carried it in their hand instead of putting it thru the X-ray machine.
Joking about a very serious matter is akin to screaming “fire” in a crowded movie theater.
Those non-explosives are dangerous and could have had tragic consequences. Hopefully the pranksters were arrested.
A smoke is almost guaranteed to start a fire with all that cloth, carpet and upholstery.
Once upon a time, a TSA screener at a Florida airport arrived for his 0400 shift. It was the supervisor’s birthday that day. He brought the supervisor a gift. Before entering the “sterile area” (that’s everything past the x-ray machines and walk through metal detectors) he had to be processed, like any passenger. The gift was a gag gift, he brought one of those fake WWII grenades on a stand which had a “take a number” note and a “number 1” tagged to the pin ring.
Needless to say, the x-ray operator stopped the machine, the screener was held, the OED was called, the screener was arrested and terminated.
Que that 70’s show meme
DUMBASS.
~true!~
I’m unwilling to click on the link, but do the would-be grenadiers have names?
I recall that also occurred at a courthouse.
Fireworks?
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