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TSA Agents Stop Chewbacca At DIA Over Light Saber
CBS Denver ^
| June 9, 2013
Posted on 06/09/2013 2:37:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel.
Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver briefly stopped Star Wars franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as he was boarding a flight with a cane shaped like one of science-fictions most iconic weapons.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl; tsaholes
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/09/2013 2:50:25 PM PDT
by
Valpal1
(If the police canÂ’t solve a problem with brute force, theyÂ’ll find a way to fix it with brute forc)
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To: nickcarraway
If it was really Chewbacca, he would have been armed with his bowcaster. I think the lightsaber was very suspicious. Obviously the agent was on his toes.../sarc
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posted on
06/09/2013 2:54:23 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: nickcarraway
"Surely, you wouldn't begrudge an old man his walking stick"
I wouldn't put it past the TSA
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:02:44 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: nickcarraway
I met him at Indianapolis one year in a pub...talked about Iraq and the War at the time - he really wanted to know what was going on over there...I believe it was 2007...gave me his card and got up for a photo with me...I remember him standing up and I though - geez this guy is a giant...then he place his hand on my shoulder and I felt like a 4 yr old boy next to grown adult...but one heck of a guy - his wife also...great people!
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:27:51 PM PDT
by
BCW
(http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html - A real life experience book about the war in Iraq)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:29:49 PM PDT
by
BCW
(http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html - A real life experience book about the war in Iraq)
To: nickcarraway
The retards probably thought that the lightsaber was REAL. xD
To: Wanderer99
The retards probably thought that the lightsaber was REAL. I'm betting the damned thieves just wanted to confiscate and keep it.
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posted on
06/09/2013 3:52:18 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: BCW
Met him and the equally tall Darth Vador (not the voice, the guy walking around) at Dragon Con one year. Very cool and nice people.
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:00:36 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Wanderer99
How come he didn’t say, “This is not the passenger you want to hansse.”
To: jmcenanly
"Surely, you wouldn't begrudge an old man his walking stick"
Yes, the TSA will, I had to buy a telescoping walking stick to put in checked luggage.
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:12:14 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
To: BCW
Gracious! Harrison Ford is 6’4”! Looks itty bitty next to this guy.
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:27:44 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
To: nickcarraway
I think this story is BS. After thoroughly checking all airlines operating out of Denver, there are none that serve Kashyyk.
I even checked for Mos Eisley.
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posted on
06/09/2013 4:38:52 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: autumnraine
At 6'6", David Prowse (Darth Vader) is 8 inches shorter than the 7'2" Peter Mayhew. David Prowse won the British heavyweight weightlifting title, competed in Mr Universe, and trained Christopher Reeve for Superman.
IMDB David Prowse bio
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posted on
06/09/2013 5:03:32 PM PDT
by
DFG
("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
To: DFG
i met prowse when i was 9 or 10, he was doing a promo at my dad’s penneys store - 1979 - i saw him out of costume, not exactly sure who he was, but later when he came out from the offices in back in costume, eyes got reeeeeeal big and everyone - kids, adults, got real quiet.
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posted on
06/09/2013 5:45:11 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: nickcarraway
I wonder how long it took them to HANDLE the stick and realize it wasn’t a working laser? Hmmm- coherent light you can lean on? A lightsaber you can touch that doesn’t slice through you? This took HOW long to identify as a CANE? Or is it that all canes are potential weapons? Too bad the semi-crippled Mayhew didn’t open a can of whoop-ass on’em with his ‘lightsaber’. They put the MO in Moron.
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posted on
06/09/2013 5:46:31 PM PDT
by
ClearBlueSky
(When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.Do what)
To: nickcarraway; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
TSA = They'll Steal Anything.
[Thanks to Gefn for the heads-up!]
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posted on
06/10/2013 10:05:26 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein)
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