WWI artillery shells found in luggage at ORD
Apr 10, 2014, 9:25 pm
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WWI artillery shells found in luggage at ORD
TSA found WWI artillery shells from checked bags at ORD. Those are 16-year old & 17-year old who were returning back from a school field trip to Europe. TSA seized the artillery shells from the bags. Luckily, no one file charged against those 2 teens students. Both of them who flew back to SEA via ORD.
http://www.wsvn.com/story/25192888/w...ggage-at-ohare
Who responsible for this? Those artillery shells won't be traveling.
http://www.wsvn.com/story/25192888/w...ggage-at-ohare
Who responsible for this? Those artillery shells won't be traveling.
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Apr 10, 2014, 10:05 pm
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Kaiser Wilhelm II 
Too bad they didn't book directly to SEA N/S they might have made it LOL
Those things do still blow from time-to-time and IIRC one just went off in Belgium a week or two ago killing a couple of people. WWI and WWII are both still claiming victims...
Too bad they didn't book directly to SEA N/S they might have made it LOL
Those things do still blow from time-to-time and IIRC one just went off in Belgium a week or two ago killing a couple of people. WWI and WWII are both still claiming victims...
Apr 10, 2014, 10:15 pm
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I fail to see the problem. That the tsa had. If they were inert hunks of metal, what was their issue other than getting another chance to throw their weight around? Also do they mean a potentially once-non-inert projectile, or just the brass casing? If it's the latter, then this is even more stupid!
Apr 10, 2014, 11:15 pm
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Too bad they didn't book directly to SEA N/S they might have made it LOL
Those things do still blow from time-to-time and IIRC one just went off in Belgium a week or two ago killing a couple of people. WWI and WWII are both still claiming victims...
Too bad they didn't book directly to SEA N/S they might have made it LOL
Those things do still blow from time-to-time and IIRC one just went off in Belgium a week or two ago killing a couple of people. WWI and WWII are both still claiming victims...
Apr 11, 2014, 4:49 am
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Once again, the TSA saves us all from a non-threat. We should all be very grateful. 
FTA:"TSA spokesman Jim McKinney says a bomb disposal crew determined the shells were inert and no one was ever in danger."
FTA:"TSA spokesman Jim McKinney says a bomb disposal crew determined the shells were inert and no one was ever in danger."
Apr 13, 2014, 10:49 pm
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Apr 14, 2014, 1:57 pm
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Apr 14, 2014, 2:18 pm
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They were found in checked luggage. How would other passengers even see them? 
I would say that they are more likely to frighten the pee-pants, totalitarian government gravy-funded, luggage looters, oops, screeners than the average passenger.
I would say that they are more likely to frighten the pee-pants, totalitarian government gravy-funded, luggage looters, oops, screeners than the average passenger.
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Perhaps, but that is the actual reason why replica weapons are on the prohibited list - because they might frighten passengers and thus could be used to hijack a plane.
Judging by the lack of knowledge of some in this country - not to mention unmitigated stupidity that seems to spread like an infection throughout the populace and the rank paranoia that has become our default emotional state - it's entirely plausible that a replica weapon could be used in a hijacking. For a humorous example, see the end of National Lampoon's Vacation, where Chevy Chase takes hostages using a nearly harmless BB gun with the pricetag from the sporting goods store still hanging off of it.
Judging by the lack of knowledge of some in this country - not to mention unmitigated stupidity that seems to spread like an infection throughout the populace and the rank paranoia that has become our default emotional state - it's entirely plausible that a replica weapon could be used in a hijacking. For a humorous example, see the end of National Lampoon's Vacation, where Chevy Chase takes hostages using a nearly harmless BB gun with the pricetag from the sporting goods store still hanging off of it.
Apr 15, 2014, 9:30 am
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Perhaps, but that is the actual reason why replica weapons are on the prohibited list - because they might frighten passengers and thus could be used to hijack a plane.
Judging by the lack of knowledge of some in this country - not to mention unmitigated stupidity that seems to spread like an infection throughout the populace and the rank paranoia that has become our default emotional state - it's entirely plausible that a replica weapon could be used in a hijacking. For a humorous example, see the end of National Lampoon's Vacation, where Chevy Chase takes hostages using a nearly harmless BB gun with the pricetag from the sporting goods store still hanging off of it.
Judging by the lack of knowledge of some in this country - not to mention unmitigated stupidity that seems to spread like an infection throughout the populace and the rank paranoia that has become our default emotional state - it's entirely plausible that a replica weapon could be used in a hijacking. For a humorous example, see the end of National Lampoon's Vacation, where Chevy Chase takes hostages using a nearly harmless BB gun with the pricetag from the sporting goods store still hanging off of it.
That aside, Scotty is deaf and often misses sarcasm, it has nothing to do with the rest.
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Actually, I have an inert "munition" of my own. It is mounted on a wooden plaque with a years of service inscription on it.
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Returning from a fun year in Bosnia during the war, I forgot that I had an expended 2 1/2 inch shell in my checked luggage. The folks at FRA found it on x-ray (it was missed out of Sarajevo - but on a Dutch military aircraft). Once they examined it and found it to be inert (no primer), it was returned to me along with a note to give the U.S. authorities that the round had been checked. Wouldn't happen post-9/11. I proudly still have my round.