A WOMAN was “appalled, shocked and embarrassed” when her stuffed monkey’s five centimetre pistol was confiscated at airport security in the US.
King5 News reports that Phyllis May was travelling from St Louis to Seattle and had a couple of sock monkey dolls, which she sells, in her carry-on luggage.
“His pistol was in there,” she says of the sock monkey “Rooster Monkburn,” a play on John Wayne’s character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film True Grit.
Ms May was travelling with her husband and going through the screening process when a TSA agent held up her bag and asked who it belonged to.
After Ms May came forward the TSA agent said “this is a gun,” referring to the five-centimetre toy pistol on the sock monkey.
“I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey,” Ms May said.The TSA agent then informed Ms May that not only was she confiscating the gun but that she was required to call the police.
Rooster Monkburn monkey’s toy gun ‘a flight risk’, says TSA agent | News.com.au
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- The Climate Of 1923
- Market Volatility
- Arctic Report Card
- Green Colorado
- Hottest Summer Ever
- “Sea ice could be gone by 2012, scientists warn”
- Record CO2 Growth
- Walz’s For Trump
- 6,000 Year Old Tree In The Austrian Alps
- Gemini Can See The Future
- Clinton To Defeat Trump By Double Digits
- Climate Intelligence Means “Making Things Up”
- Comedy From The BBC
- The Climate Afterlife
- Rewriting The Northern Hemisphere
- Useful Graphs From ChatGPT
- Fort Lauderdale Drowning
- Sinking Of The Titanic
- Expert Arctic Forecasting
- Sinking Of The Titanic
- Nobel Prize Winning Forecast
- Changing Climate
- Gen Z Math And Solutions
- Orwellian NASA Maps
- Faking US Temperature Data
Recent Comments
- arn on Market Volatility
- arn on Gemini Can See The Future
- conrad ziefle on Gemini Can See The Future
- conrad ziefle on “Sea ice could be gone by 2012, scientists warn”
- Bill on Gemini Can See The Future
- conrad ziefle on Market Volatility
- conrad ziefle on Hottest Summer Ever
- stewartpid on Market Volatility
- William on Record CO2 Growth
- Greg in NZ on Hottest Summer Ever
Our cowardice continues to drive us insane.
Maybe, but there is hope. The TSA didn’t shoot the sock monkey’s sock dog during the search of Ms. May’s luggage.
Just wait until they start cutting off index fingers due to the potential risk of forming a finger gun.
…good point (oops, a pun there).
Patriot Act
Critical thinking is excluded from the job-selection criteria for TSA employees.
They must only obey orders
http://www.2ehandsplaymo.nl/data/upload/Shop/images/img1856.jpg
Playmobil
http://torontoist.com/attachments/SteveKupferman/20091204legoglock.jpg
Lego
Looks like the LEGO might fail the plastic pistol test.
RPG Rocket Grenade – Black
http://www.firestartoys.com/Shop/Minifigure-Weapons/Brickarms-Guns/1535-Brickarms-~-RPG-Rocket-Grenade-~-Black.html
Would be nice to know who is issuing such orders. It’s hard to imagine anyone sufficiently brain dead.
When you hire people to work for the government that could not get a job anyplace else this is the result.
Seattle Progressives will sleep better knowing that Homeland Security has stemmed the threat of toy gun toting monkeys from St. Louis. Is there a toy gun registration requirement in Seattle yet? 😉
When I was a kid, about 40 years ago, I had a toy cap gun that folded up to look like a camera. It was called a “Mattel Agent Zero M Snap Shot Toy Camera Cap Gun” and resembled a Luger pistol. (thank you Google).
http://gajitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/agent-zero-m-cap-gun-camera.jpg
There were also radio/rifle, movie camera/gun, and pocket knife/pistol versions. (again, thank you Google).
She should have called in SEAL Team 6.
Seal Team 6 arriving! TSA on alert level orange.
http://youtu.be/RfIa3PCjse0
Several years ago the “no liquids on planes” ban came into being.
At a check in the security agent tried to confiscate a traveller’s insulin !! A diabetic depends on insulin.
My partner had some “foundation” in a small bottle in her bag. The security agent confiscated it and carelessly tossed it into a metal bin some two metres away – Had that been explosive that stupid action would have killed several people !
Just as in climate science morons either run the show or are the hired help.
We know the TSA isn’t intended to keep us safe. They know full well that the things they confiscate and throw away are 100% harmless but throw them away anyways.
The true intent is to condition Americans to unconditionally and unquestioningly submit to authority.
This isn’t to protect passengers, but to protect those running the show. The higher level bureaucrats and the politicians. Can’t have any underlings thinking for themselves as we know how dumb some government employees are.
One bad use of discretion and it could result in an incident big enough that someone has to take early retirement. The reverse isn’t true as good use of discretion is not rewarded. Blanket policies allow the employees to just being “doing their job”, while leaving not much risk for the higher ups. We know that it is just about impossible for any government employees to be fired for incompetence or bad decisions.