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Old Jan 26, 2011, 3:24 pm
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UK steals a page from TSA
Airport security at Gatwick declares a 3" piece of molded resin a "firearm."

Have we been exporting TSA employees?

"The 'firearm' is three inches long and cast out of resin. It's probably just as well we didn't sell her a toy tank."
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 3:51 pm
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But the TSA would have confiscated the "gun" and played with it after hours.
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 4:17 pm
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Actually this "firearm" is dangerous. If someone tried to hijack a plane with it people would die..... laughing.
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 4:30 pm
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One could fall on it and poke his eye out. That is what my momma always said.
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 4:50 pm
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Oh, no! They might shoot the pax!

God, what happened to common sense?!
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 5:18 pm
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Well, this is the same airport that tried to tell Mendis that pasta is a liquid, because you need water to cook it.
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Old Jan 26, 2011, 5:44 pm
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And the Secret Service MI5 wrestled the toy soldier's 3 inch gun to the ground.....
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 6:38 am
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I suppose it could have been a threat if shoved down someone's throat.
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 7:40 am
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Originally Posted by FriendlySkies
God, what happened to common sense?!
By all accounts by employees of the TSA, the entire world's supply of "common sense" was stored in a sub-basement of the World Trade Center and was destroyed on 9/11.

Ghu knows they haven't shown a lick of it since then.
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 7:48 am
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Originally Posted by Caradoc
By all accounts by employees of the TSA, the entire world's supply of "common sense" was stored in a sub-basement of the World Trade Center and was destroyed on 9/11.

Ghu knows they haven't shown a lick of it since then.

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Old Jan 27, 2011, 10:07 am
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...God, what happened to common sense?!
Oh, c'mon now.......
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 10:10 am
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They probably call the little toy plastic item a replica like TSA did for a Disney Pirates of the Caribbean toy plastic sword that TSA employees confiscated from a child.

A demonstration of not understanding the meaning of words, at least for TSA.
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 10:17 am
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 6:18 pm
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Where on earth do they FIND these morons? (I mean the ones doing the hiring of the even-more-brainless.)
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Old Jan 27, 2011, 6:45 pm
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If that is a piece of legitimate news, it's pretty scary to me. If someone is so off base as to think THAT is a "firearm," do they think when they see an actual firearm that it's a pickle or a hairbrush or a wood sliver?
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