TSA confiscates Sock Monkey's toy pistol

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TripSix

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/TSA-agent-confiscates-sock-monkeys-toy-pistol.html

I know, I know - they are just doing their job. But, this quote:

“She [TSA agent] 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.

Plus, if you're going to do your job by confiscating a GUN, you should continue doing your job by calling the police instead of just stating that is what you're supposed to do:

The TSA agent told May she would have to confiscate the tiny gun and was supposed to call the police

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Hard to tell from the picture, but is that sock monkey six feet tall? THEN I could see confusing that gun for a real one. Otherwise...
 
And I bet if I put my finger in her neck and said, "don't move, I will shoot" she wouldn't know either. Thats it, everyone wears mittens on flights from here on out. So stupid!
 
If the agent said that quote to me, I'd let them keep the gun. But first, I'd buckle over laughing in their face as hard as I can then walk away, they can come after me with their tazers if they want, I'll be at the gate.

The agent probably didn't call the police because they knew by just responding to the call, the cop would forever be a little bit dumber. The retardation at the checkpoints is viral.
 
ChasenSFO said:
If the agent said that quote to me, I'd let them keep the gun. But first, I'd buckle over laughing in their face as hard as I can then walk away, they can come after me with their tazers if they want, I'll be at the gate.

The agent probably didn't call the police because they knew by just responding to the call, the cop would forever be a little bit dumber. The retardation at the checkpoints is viral.
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That was my thought. They didn't call the cops because they knew the cops would laugh at them too.
 
I'm thankful I don't have to deal with that organization more than once or twice a year.
 
I would have insisted that not only she call the police, but her supervisor to the area. She really could not differentiate between a tiny 2" piece of molded plastic and an actual metal weapon? Isn't that part of her job?

Saving the world from evil sock monkeys, one monkey at a time.

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” J. Butcher
 
A Life Aloft said:
I would have insisted that not only she call the police, but her supervisor to the area. She really could not differentiate between a tiny 2" piece of molded plastic and an actual metal weapon? Isn't that part of her job?

Saving the world from evil sock monkeys, one monkey at a time.

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” J. Butcher
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It's the same mindset that suspends, and threatens to expel, a kid for using an imaginary bow and arrow.

https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...0_year_old_suspended_for_shooting_imaginary_a
 
Did the parent ask themselves "Hey, let's just go ahead and check your toy?"

An ounce of prevention...
 
jtrain609 said:
Did I ever tell you the story about how the TSA took my peanut butter, which they told me was a liquid?

No joke, holmes.
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I believe it. I have never ever forgiven them since the cold blooded, barbarous larceny of my tuna, episode. I figure they are making themselves some nice little lunches/dinners and snacks with all the food they take and laughing their asses off over it.
 
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I was in New Orleans one week and went and visited a plantation. At the plantation they made out of this world homemade strawberry jelly. I bought a small one for $20 to bring back to my wife. I was really pissed as the TSA guy just trashed it. Little did I know how much of a threat jelly posed to our national security. :rolleyes:
 
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