Originally Posted by
BSBD
She looked at me with a solemn, earnest face, and said, "Cigars can be made into bombs." When I heard this pile of nonsense, I couldn't help it - I just shook my head. She said, "If you had seen what we've seen, you'd understand."
Thanks to goalie's This Week in TSA History threads, I happen to know that TSA has never reported finding any cigar bombs. I have great pity for that poor deluded TSO.
Maybe she's old enough to remember the ads for exploding cigars by the
same company that sold the dribble glass and the joy buzzer.
The exploding-cigar gag supposedly goes at least
as far back as Ulysses Grant, and rumors abound of an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro using such a device.
No, I won't insert a Bill Clinton joke here.
