Posted on 01/22/2008 7:01:21 PM PST by RDTF
A man alerted Transportation Security Administration officials early Sunday morning that he had gotten through the main security checkpoint with a handgun, Fox 5 has exclusively learned.
Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police were called to the checkpoint where the man, identified as Gregory Hinkle, turned over his firearm and was given a summons for a misdemeanor for violating Virigina Code 18.2-287.01 which prohibits firearms in an airport terminal with exceptions for law enforcement and checked luggage.
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TSA was probably too busy stopping a federal agent from getting through security.
Something smells once again...
If he got through, why did he “alert” officials???
He’ll now be “red flagged” on all future flights because he tattled on the Keystone Cops.
Prospective Darwin candidate....not likely.
"Testing response" for groups seeking our destruction...very likely.
Another “idiot” making a point. Or someone alerting the feds that it can be done? I, for one, don’t believe that anyone wanting to do such, can’t pull it off.
Barry!? ... Barry Switzer? ... Is that you?
LOL!
But, but... those are GOVERNMENT employees. How can such a thing be possible?
(sarcasm)
Hopefully, they took away his fingernail clippers.
He wasn’t carrying a bomb.
Maybe he just wanted to protect himself.
I think that these days, everyone on board should be carrying.
No terrorist is going to hijack a plane full of armed passengers.
I'm just guessing the gun-toter was FBI or Postal Inspection Service ~ only guys I've known who make the fact they're carrying a piece "public" ~
Oh, yeah, the air marshalls, the three Arabs, and the various professional athletes didn't show up for their luggage.
darn, hot cops and pro athletes - I’m flying on all the wrong planes!
I flew from Phoenix to San Jose to visit my uncle and his family over New Years holiday. I am a nurse and have a work tote. I grabbed my pen case from this tote at the last minute and put it in my purse. Got to San Jose w/o any problem. Towards the end of my trip, I go to get a pen out of said case. Come to find out I had left a 6 - 7 “ hemostat in there. Ooops! How it got through x-ray, I’ll never know. I put it in with my checked luggage.
Guess we know what they think is dangerous.
You want the ROP representatives with guns on an airplane? I understand your point, but, everyone on a plane with guns! No, better yet, increase the number of air marshals on each flight. Train and arm flight attendants and pilots might be a better way to do.
Of course.
I was being realllly sarcastic.
Sorry it wasn’t obvious.
: )
Dense are our middle name! Duh! When the meds kick in, logic and observational powers go out! ;-)
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