Vegas police: Jerry Lewis cited for gun in luggage

AP ^ | Wed Jul 30

[300magnum]

LAS VEGAS - Police say they have confiscated a gun belonging to Jerry Lewis that was found in the 82-year-old entertainer's carryon bag as he prepared to fly to Detroit from Las Vegas.

[300magnum]

Lewis's manager says the gun can not fire and is a prop for his show.

[HAL9000]

What will they say in France?

[Biblebelter]

Thanks Homeland Security, you continue to make this unsecured borders country a safer place.

[P.O.E.]

[DManA]

Jerry Lewis with a gun. A laff riot.

is a prop for his show

[Kieri]

Lewis has two other legitimate alibis:

1) “Hey, I’m 82 years old and my memory isn’t what it used to be. I forgot I had it in my suitcase!”

2) “Officer, I’m going to DETROIT, not Dayton!”

[edcoil]

If you fly into Detroit without a gun, they will issue you one.

[toddlintown]

If I was going to Dee-troit, I’d be packing too.

[Future Snake Eater]

Hmm...yeah, I don't think I'd want him walking around armed either.

[BBT]

HAHAHA! I just KNEW this would be a good thread.

[garyhope]

Oh darn, everyone beat me to it with the “going to Detroit and needing a gun” comments.

No kidding.

[angkor]

Reminds me of the old Woody Allen sthick:

Inept bank robber Virgil Starkwell hands a hastily-scrawled holdup note to the teller. Baffled, she reads it aloud:

“Please put $50,000 into this bag and abt natural, because I am pointing a gub at you.”

“That’s ‘gun’. I’m pointing a ‘gun’ at you.”

“No, no, that’s definitely a ‘b’.”

[Larry Lucido]

1) “Hey, I’m 82 years old and my memory isn’t what it used to be. I forgot I had it in my suitcase!”

"I'm old. I was confused!"

[ETL]

[P8riot]

Maybe he had been drinking.

[SkyDancer]

With his money why wasn’t he flying in a corporate jet? All he had to do was declare it in his baggage.

[Oratam]

[libs_kma]

"If I was going to Dee-troit, I’d be packing too."

Detroit has "Mayors" that assault Police Officers!

Think what they'll try to do to you!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He was going to Murder City?

And he was only taking ONE gun?

[ETL]

Reminds me of the old Woody Allen sthick:
Inept bank robber Virgil Starkwell hands a hastily-scrawled holdup note to the teller. Baffled, she reads it aloud:
“Please put $50,000 into this bag and abt natural, because I am pointing a gub at you.”

What about that scene from Take the Money and Run where's he's in the prison courtyard holding on to a gun he made from a bar of soap, and all the other prisoners are laughing their *sses off from their cells because the break was called off. Apparently, everybody knew but him.