KFI: Security screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport stumbled across a missile launcher in a man’s luggage during a routine security screening at the airport.
According to a statement from the TSA, the military grade weapon was discovered inside the man’s checked luggage.
“Fortunately the item was not a live device,” the TSA said in a statement. more here
Big deal! It’s useless without the missle. Kinda like a spent artillery shell.
Blind squirrel strikes again.
Not a live device, no problem. Nothing to see here, folks.
OMG. Those Rocket Scientologists found a holster? NFW.
Turns out, it was Janet Reno’s lost dildo.
He was just going to use it to go rat hunting in Baltimore.
By-god it’s a fully semiautomatic AR-15!
” stumbled across ” might be the key important phrase. All I can recall reading about the TSA is that in test to find weapons in carry on luggage. They never find anything.
It’s a metal tube. The horror!
Texas Man goes on vacation.
That’s *my* kind of “souvenir”!
I know a fellow V/Nam vet who had his 30.06 empty case taken from him at an airport.
The empty case was hanging around his neck, he picked it up at his fathers 21-gun salute military funeral.
No bullet, just an empty brass case with a hole drilled through it for a gold chain.
He had to break the chain to get the case off, or forfeit that too.
Assholes, not intelligent enough to be garbage men in Baltimore.
OTD. I had the same experience at Newark Airport some years ago.
A young TSA broad had me remove an NRA bullet, signed by Charlton Heston,from my key ring. I protested, saying it was harmless. Her supervisor, who looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy, agreed with the broad, said it could be considered a MISSILE.
I gave it up. Didn’t want to miss my flight. Fookin’ eegits!
“Military grade weapon” that’s not “a live device?”
Isn’t that … uhh … somewhat contradictory?
Except, maybe … just maybe … in the French armed forces?
izlamo delenda est …
Did the morons at TSA forget to check man’s rectum for missing missile ? 😉
No doubt using that as your carry-on luggage would be a real conversation starter!
TSA, spit…
Why I don’t fly anymore….
We really need common sense missile launcher control laws.