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Blade was in shoe for âsafetyâ
What was a missionary doing with a razor blade and a hacksaw blade in his shoe at a Miami International Airport security checkpoint?Indeed David McIntyre, 38, a missionary with the Harrisburg, Pa.-based Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, was on his way home from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with his wife and three children when he was arrested at Concourse B on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. The shoes were an old pair that McIntyre said he last wore about a year ago, when he was living in a bad neighborhood, getting death threats related to his work and feeling under siege as an American. ââPut yourself in a trunk of a car: Youâre tied up. How are you going to get out?ââ asked McIntyre late Monday afternoon, after spending what he said was one of the worst days of his life. ``So I put a razor blade in a shoe because I was getting specific threats on my life and my safety there, and I thought it was a reasonable precaution.ââ Kidnapping is a growth industry in Brazil. He and his family eventually moved, and the man who had threatened him stopped going to his church.
No surprise there. At 6:20 a.m., in Miami, where he had to change planes to return to Philadelphia for a yearâs furlough, he was stopped. His wife and children, along with his checked luggage, continued on without him. He was taken to the Turner-Guilford-Knight Correctional Center, where he was released on bond. Monday evening, he still had no ticket for his return flight. Need to check him out, but the story sounds plausible. Posted by: Steve 2003-12-23 |
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