Posted on 12/12/2013 10:19:18 AM PST by Nachoman
A dedicated TSA agent successfully disarmed a sock monkey attempting to sneak a tiny toy gun onto a plane at a St. Louis airport last week.
According to a report by King 5, “Rooster Monkburn” was traveling with Phyllis May of Redmond, Washington, on Dec. 3 when the observant TSA agent saw the monkey’s tiny gun, properly secured in a tiny holster, and tucked away in May’s sewing kit in her carry-on bag.
It is unknown if Monkburn possessed a valid concealed carry permit for his revolver, but it was confirmed that he was impersonating the John Wayne character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film “True Grit.”
Then while May and her husband were going through the security screening process she noticed that one of her bags was missing. About the same time, “The (TSA agent) held it up and said ‘whose is this?’” May, who has a small business selling distinctive handmade sock monkeys, told reporters. “I realized oh, my God this is my bag.”
“She said ‘this is a gun,’” May continued. “I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey.” Tiny but deadly? Perhaps. (Photo credit: King 5)
Tiny but deadly? Perhaps. (Photo credit: King 5)
But the TSA agent wasn’t toying around.
“If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,” the agent explained.
May responded with an astounding, “Really?”
The agent then went on to explain to May that she was going to have to seize Monkburn’s revolver and that policy dictated she call the police to report the incident.
“I said well go ahead,” May replied, still in disbelief. “And I said really? You’re kidding me right, and she said, ‘no it looks like a gun.’”
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I bet they won’t try and take the Trunk Monkey’s gun!
Ping.
Trunk Monkey don't play. NomeSayn?
DANG! Rooster, what were you thinkin?
This is what happens when you flunk out of flipping burgers at McDonalds. They give you a TSA badge and a uniform. And then they spend 15 minutes explaining to them what a gun is, using their thumb and an index finger.
LOL!
Didn’t I read somewhere that you can now take certain knives and scissors on board the plane? So while this tiny figurine was focused on, something actually threatening was likely being boarded unimpeded.
Of course. That’s what really counts. You don’t have to worry about sworn members of a middle eastern death cult whose primary goal in life is to kill Christians and Jews. They’re no problem. A small replica of a gun is really dangerous.
Bull$h!t. What this is is intimidating the normal people and teaching them to be groveling sheep.
The TSA should hire the sock monkey — it’d probably do a better job.
Which member of the mac daddies mindless sock puppet administration was it?
Oh wait, you mean a toy sock puppet, never mind.
It was later reported that the Sock Monkey “...had issues in his personal life...” and Christmas is especially hard on him. The report went on to say that TSA agents discovered a police report from G.I. Joe on a stolen revolver, and within a search of Sock Monkey’s home found evidence of a plan to hijack a plane to the Island of Misfit toys. Thank you TSA. Thank you.
I am not surprised. I ran into something similar at the courthouse in Calgary several months ago. Access to the coutrooms involves going through a metal detector and emptying one’s pockets. I had forgotten that I had a small, mini-Swiss Army knife, a promotional item. I contained a 1 1/2” blade and a 1 1/2” nail file. They confiscated this without the option of returning it. I asked about keeping the plastic toothpick, but was told it was a sharp object, so I was SOL. What they did not seem to understand was that the two pens that I had in my pocket could do more damage than a 1 1/2” penknife blade!
Yeh they gave my sister in law 4 patdowns at Atlanta/Darkfield this morning on her way to a Mexican cruise. 5ft nothing, blond hair, typical nordic looking middle aged terrorist. They can’t understand why we didn’t want to go.
Where do you think the “lot of 25 pocket knives” on ebay come from?
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