Posted on 02/23/2004 7:41:52 AM PST by jjm2111
[Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch was lead away in handcuffs for saying his cat was NOT a bomb]
According to another waiting passenger nearby, Klayman told the screeners that the cat wasn't a terrorist and didn't have a bomb. With that, we're told, he was instantly taken out of line by the security people and put in handcuffs.
He was then apparently taken somewhere for questioning, where agents most likely didn't recognize him or realize that he was famous. He was eventually released, and he hopped a later flight.
"It wasn't a funny joke," Klayman said last week, rejecting our efforts to talk about the surgical removal of the agents' senses of humor. "I apologized for it. I support what the TSA is doing, and I should have been more sensitive. I was tired, and it was the end of the day."
Asked about the cuffs and the questioning, Klayman declined to go into detail, though he confirmed he had to take a later flight to Fort Lauderdale.
Well, beats Guantanamo.
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Never ever rule out duct tape as a solution to any problem.
Don't bother with the excuses. It's the same thing his mother said, right before he sued her.
On a serious side, I've flown lab monkeys, dogs, cats, miniature horses, tropical fish, turtles, and many-many other critters too numerous to count. I can assure everyone that nothing comes closer to being a bomb than a cat without technically being a bomb. They puke and crap and piss all over the place when they get nervous and scared in a cargo plane. The stink is worse than anything else I could imagine.
Yo, I was just wondering that! Does the cat go with him everywhere? Can't it stay home ever? Is there a deep personal attachment? Did they go to any cat fashion shows during their bonding time?
These are the hard-hitting questions reporters need to be asking.
Oh so true. We hosted an exchange student from Germany in 1981/82. He was going home for a break and was in line with his stuff to go through the metal detectors and x-rays. He asked his girlfriend why they needed to open his camera. She replied that they were checking to make sure it wasn't a bomb. All the agent heard was "bomb". He almost didn't make his flight.
But, that was in an age where there was still some common sense. They took her explanation at face value and let him go with a warning to both that it would be best not to say things like that in security areas.
xjcsa wrote:No, Larry was detained because the TSA folks were idiots.
In this case, Larry wasn't really detained because anybody thought he was a serious terrorist threat. He was detained for being an idiot.
Please explain how any flight was more secure because of Larry Klayman's detention? If this action by the TSA didn't actually enhance the safety and security of some airline flight, what is the TSA's justification for detaining Lary Klayman?
As United Flight 950 took off, the flight crew seemed tense, fully aware that only days had elapsed since airports were again operating after the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist bombings. .........Sure enough, less than 15 minutes after takeoff, a flight attendant's voice announced on the public intercom system that a metal canister, one foot high and several inches wide, had rolled out from under a passenger's seat. She asked the passengers in English, French and Flemish to claim it. When on the first occasion no one did so, she asked two more times. By that time, the atmosphere in the cabin had grown tense. Even before I was about to predict that we would have to make an emergency landing, the plane banked hard left. ..........
And the rambling tale goes on........
One time we were in a diner having dinner. There was a table in the back corner that suddenly got really upset with their food. Way too much so for a diner. They threw a plate, demanded the cook and manager come to the table, etc......While everyone was watching this display, a table of eight guys walked out the front door without paying their bill. Once the eight guys had enough time to get in their car, the table hating their food and throwing things became subdued and settled for whatever the manager arranged. The whole thing was a rouse for the guys to walk out on a $100 bill.
You had to look away from the distraction to catch the whole thing. It was a great lesson for my kids on not getting robbed, pick pocketed, mugged, etc......Alway's watch the area where the chaos isn't.
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