TSA disarms sock monkey. Flying public safe again
Dec 9, 2013, 10:19 am
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TSA disarms sock monkey. Flying public safe again
May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and found the two-inch long pistol. “She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’”
TSA agent confiscates sock monkey's toy pistol
TSA agent confiscates sock monkey's toy pistol
Dec 9, 2013, 10:55 am
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Unbelievable! I mean, I believe it happened. I just can't believe the utter stupidity of some TSOs: "If I held [this 2 inch toy gun] to your neck, you wouldn't know it wasn't the real thing."
What an idiot!
What an idiot!
Dec 9, 2013, 11:36 am
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It can't be real; It must be parody. Even the TSA can't be this stupid, can they?
Good catch, in any case. Imagine how that TSO would have felt if he hadn't caught it and the newspaper headlines the next day read: "Plane hijacked by sock monkey and miniature, fake toy pistol."
Good catch, in any case. Imagine how that TSO would have felt if he hadn't caught it and the newspaper headlines the next day read: "Plane hijacked by sock monkey and miniature, fake toy pistol."
Dec 9, 2013, 12:10 pm
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Don't forget to share it with everyone you know.
Hilarity like this on the taxpayers' dime is too easy to come by these days. And don't forget to queue up "Yakety Sax" while reading TSA articles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
Hilarity like this on the taxpayers' dime is too easy to come by these days. And don't forget to queue up "Yakety Sax" while reading TSA articles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
Dec 9, 2013, 12:19 pm
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Dec 9, 2013, 12:44 pm
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I had a paper cutout of a hand gun i was planning to purchase in my breif and it was confiscated, why wasn't that on the news, I think these people are nothing more than a joke and every-time I see them when I am going through search I laugh and they ask me "WHY are you laughing"? I ask them "why do you ask, is my laughing coming out of my mouth in the shape of a gun or bomb?'
(I fully expect a TSA "employee" to pop by and remind us all that the TSA doesn't "confiscate" anything, which we should all recognize by now as an outright lie based on slippery semantics.)
Dec 9, 2013, 1:18 pm
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Dec 9, 2013, 1:24 pm
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Considering his contribution was to comment on a duplication of threads without any commentary on the facts, I'd have to go with "...wandered off to dream up anything resembling a plausible excuse for this particular incident."