Newsstand - Knife Fight

Salt Lake City Weekly (http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/city_2_2004-02-05.cfm)

"For Lopeti Penima’ani, a trip to the airport in November played out like a script from a bad prime-time cop show.

“Stop lying to me!”

“Your story doesn’t hold water.”

“Don’t you realize that 3,000 Americans were killed by people like you who merely had a box cutter?”

Penima’ani found himself in a tiny room at Salt Lake City International Airport on Nov. 5, answering questions from an FBI agent who had reasons to suspect Penima’ani—a middle-age, white Rastafarian in a wheelchair—was trying to put something over.

Security guards caught Penima’ani with a pocketknife in his lap bag two separate times in less than an hour."

Thank God they stopped this guy! This incident certainly makes me proud to be an American and glad that we're spending all this money on airport security. Long live the TSA!!!

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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

I think my shoe is smarter then Mr. Morris . Why does TSA have to employ idiots?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:


“I find his story quite humorous,” said Earl Morris, federal security director of the Transportation Security Administration in Salt Lake City. “I wouldn’t put a phenomenal amount of credit in it. It is a great story, but come on, we are smart people.”

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[This message has been edited by yevlesh2 (edited Feb 04, 2004).]

hard to believe..... i hope its a spoof....wonder if the daily paper[s] carried it?

Bow before the great and abominable TSA.

Bow your heads in silence and reverence.

Or be put to death. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
[B...“Don’t you realize that 3,000 Americans were killed by people like you who merely had a box cutter?”
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When will people stop saying:
" killed by box cutters" or
" breach in security at Boston" or
" better safe than sorry"
etc. etc.

Those people were killed because it was our POLICY to let hijackers take over the plane. It is that simple. They could have done it with ballpoint pens. Or broken whatever from plane parts. It was not because of the then current security system.

When will we ever learn?

The Penima'ani guy is very real. It's sad when someone does things for society and then is repaid in such an ugly way.


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Penima%E2%80%99ani%2C


<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by clacko:
hard to believe..... i hope its a spoof....wonder if the daily paper[s] carried it?</font>

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He then headed back toward security where armed guards found the knife a second time.
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The TSA is allowed to carry weapons!?!

It's simple, full fledged strip searches before each passenger can board.

Oh, and maybe check the cabin cleaners, mechanics, the caterers, the fuel tank whatevers http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif, etc.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by InterflugIL62:
It's simple, full fledged strip searches before each passenger can board.</font>

... making clean underwear (http://www.cafeshops.com/tsaslc.4356397?zoom=yes#zoom) all the more important.