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Sometimes a purse is just a purse
(A wonderful TSA rant by Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot in Salon.com.) That’s the thing with airport security and TSA. There is always something funny to write about. And in place of “something funny” you may substitute the words “exasperating” or “troubling” or “a national embarrassment.” The latest from the Department of You Can’t Make This Up involves a teenage girl who was not allowed to carry a purse onto a flight in Norfolk, Va., because it was embroidered with the design of a handgun.… (life.salon.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Chip your drinking the kool-aid. What happened to common sense? If this is a actual replica then you fly backwards... Come on now.... This is basically stupid shit.
I saw the picture of the purse and the gun that was sewn onto the purse. It is by no means a "replica". I own many "replica" guns and they are just that, replicas. That means the "replica" gun looks and feels like the gun it is replicating. Furthermore, the replica has the same dimensions as the real thing, function as the real thing and a lot of the times, are the same weight as the real thing. What this girl had was a plastic, fake, symbol of a gun. Way to go TSA, you saved the day! NOT!!!!
Where do you draw the line? You want the TSA at every station to be able to determine an exact replica vs a partial replica?
Chip, we are dealing with a plastic symbol of a gun. It is not even life-size and it is not even a "partial-replica" as you put it. There is no way on God's green earth that this was a security threat.
What's next? Checking paper, pencils and crayons, so a passenger or child can't draw a "REPLICA" on board.
No they'll be checking to see if you have an Pencils at all and if your spotted with one your internal organs will be searched..
Gun replicas are prohibited. I don't want screeners making judgement calls about that sort of thing. That's why replicas are prohibited. Do we define an exception for gun replicas that are attached to other things? How large does the "other thing" have to be to make it qualify?
She should've checked it.