TSA Agents! I pity the fools!
Posted on 12/09/2013 9:21:24 AM PST by moonshinner_09
"Rooster Monkburn" the cowboy sock monkey is without his pistol, thanks to a diligent TSA agent in St. Louis.
Phyllis May of Redmond, Wash. says she is “appalled and shocked and embarrassed all at the same time” about the incident that happened on Wednesday.
May has a small business selling unique sock monkey dolls. She says she and her husband were on their way from St. Louis to Sea-Tac and she had a couple of monkeys and sewing supplies with her in a carry-on bag.
“His pistol was in there,” she says of the sock monkey “Rooster Monkburn,” a take-off on John Wayne character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film “True Grit.”
May and her husband were going through the screening process when she noticed that one of her bags was missing.
“And the (TSA agent) held it up and said ‘whose is this?’” she said. “I realized oh, my God this is my bag.”
May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and found the two-inch long pistol.“She said ‘this is a gun,’” said May. “I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey.”
“She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’” said May.
The TSA agent told May she would have to confiscate the tiny gun and was supposed to call the police. “I said well go ahead,” said May. “And I said really? You’re kidding me right, and she said no it looks like a gun.” “She took my monkey’s gun,” said May, who has retained her sense of humor.
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I’ve always been taught that the pen is mightier than the sword!
They had to make sure there were no weapons hidden inside the rifles.
Is the pen mightier than a sock monkey pistol?
On behalf of the TSA agent, she was doing what she was trained to do; I just work here. So higher-ups need to address any problems that the public has with this policy imo.
On the other hand...
If I, or anybody else, held something small like that toy gun to my neck, then I'd probably need a mirror to actually know what it was. So there are a number of things, pens, cigarette lighters, finger, etc., that you could hold up to someone's neck to threaten them with.
Also, will somebody please reference where in the TSA airport advisory guide that it warns about carry-on things that someone might think is a gun if you hold it up to their neck?
Correction: Think = thing.
On one trip to Australia I had a .22LR unfired cartridge in my jacket. Neither the US or Aussie customs found it. I didn’t know I had it until I was putting away stuff when I got to Australia.
“Fly or drive. Hmmmm let’s see.”
Sounds like a no-brainer to me. You know, if all the frequent flyers who have been hassled by the mutants, perverts and 300+ lb. Holder girls who “work” for the TSA were all to boycott flying for one single day, they could bring the airlines to their knees and put a stop to this crap.
Not me!-—LOL!
I will never board another plane unless something goes wrong with my daughter and her family who are presently living in Calgary.
They are hoping to be transferred out of there before long.
Yeah, well, I’m doing my best to do my part and setting the example is the only reason to post.
My BIL does the same thing on a different journey he makes about once a month.
For me it would be Seattle to Portland. It’s a four hour drive. It’s actually faster to drive it.
Once again I am reminded why I have not missed flying over the past 15 years.
I haven’t been on an airplane since our honeymoon in 1978. My plans are to continue this practice as long as possible.
TSA Agents! I pity the fools!
Dallas to Houston.... same same.
PS... but not near as pretty. In fact, downright dull. Living in a Red state has its price.
Sock monkey and pistol ping.
Since 2006, for a family funeral waaaayyy down in Fort Myers. (Drive that, and your tailbone will be permanently implanted in your skullbone.)
I think the skeptics are right, TSA is a "normalization" operation, tasked with "training" the proles to the "new reality": Us big, you little.
Nutz!
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