Seeing a reference to an Easter Island head, I almost thought that my wife and I were coming through the check-point at the same time as you were there! It was at LGA (maybe a year prior, but about that 'era') when my wife caused a minor disturbance at the check-point when a TSA agent carelessly unwrapped her Moai figurine and chipped it's top hat. (It's not actually clear that it broke, but he definitely dropped it on the floor, and to my wife, that was enough.)