Thieving Morons in Omaha

I know! And this is the point, isn't it? A bunch of change, a pencil, a pen, one's hands (depending on how much martial arts training one has had) -- pretty much anything can be turned into a weapon.

But of course if we prohibited everything that could be turned into a weapon (including people!), I guess we'd have to stop flying planes.

 

Dont forget the chop-stix, trauma shears, fiskar scissors, fists, elbows and knees. Heck with the right amount of force I could use my phone and crush a skull or sternum.

 

Give TSA time and far fewer planes will be flying.

 

How about one of these instead?

 

Fixed it for you.

 

LOL, oh i could have plenty of fun with that, blunt force trauma and strangulation come to mind off the bat.

 

Not to mention that it'd make quite the fetching hat if pinned in place properly upon the head.

 

or depressed skull fracture if placed just right on either temple

 

You all are missing a very profitable -er I mean, dangerous item! Diamonds! the hardest substance that can cut other things. So you all better handover I mean, voluntary surrender all your jewelry -ah, dangerous contraband.

It's for your safety and the safety of others travel with you. *pokerface*

'Cept you there with the cubic zircon, what fool you take me fer-I mean, you're free to go.

 

It's true. Why, if my mom were to take her engagement ring, put it up against the plane window, and make fast little circles with it about 10,000 times or until her arm explodes, she might have a chance of cutting through the window and depressurizing the cabin! Think of it, the embarrassment of having to wear those RIDICULOUS-looking oxygen masks!

 

Well she would have to do it twice, since they are double paned, but yes. The possibility exist so everyone must be on guard!

 

Why waste ammunition? A guillotine blade only needs resharpening every 5,000 necks...

 

The screwdriver one amused me. When have you ever seen an exposed screw on an aircraft.

Don't these morons know that planes are held together with rivets?

Maybe they fear a terrorist will unscrew the toilet paper holder in the lavatory. Oh the horror!

 

Omaha is one of the worst. They took this from me about a year ago. The contact at that time was Kathy Bogus. She offered to send it back to me, but she couldn't find it.

 

"Kathy Bogus"??? Wow. With a name like that, no wonder you got no satisfaction. (But how perfect for the TSA!)

 

Should have ask her how she liked it.

 

Bogus, Gordon and the entire six-figure TSA crack executive team in NE, keeping America safe from potential plane-dismantlers such as you, Sky Dancer!
Your menace was thwarted, and TSA might have recovered $1.50 by selling your weapon, but someone walked off with it first. (Cute stocking stuffer, BTW).

 

I figure I could wait until the pilot comes out to take a leak, attack, and make his glasses really really loose.

Sold it for $1.50? I still think it's in the screeners pocket.

 

Back when I started reading the Other Place, there was a story about a female business traveler whose jewelry box in her carry-on was pulled out for "further inspection" and the (female) screener tried to insist that the diamond stub earrings were "sharp" and therefore "not allowed." Fortunately the passenger stood her ground and the screener eventually gave up on the attempt at "voluntary surrender." No, I'm not making this up.

 

O Rly? So why is risk based screening, with some animals being more equal than others, being rammed down our throats?

Yeah, I saw that episode of MacGyver too.

Congratulations, you win the Short Bus Award.

So that means the confiscated voluntarily surrendered six pack was treated as HazMat, right?

Cracks in a commercial aircraft window are Serious Business.