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Stick of Dynamite Found in Checked Luggage

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I swear, I thought it was a penis pump...

Posted by Howard McFarland Fish 2006-08-26 00:14|| 2006-08-26 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Wha...doesn't everyone carry a stick of kapoowee when they take a flight?

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-26 02:21|| 2006-08-26 02:21|| Front Page Top

#3 He's 21. It was a stunt and he's both a moron and an asshole. Nail his ass to the wall.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-26 02:27|| 2006-08-26 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred, I think this young man found your lost fishing gear.

Posted by GK 2006-08-26 03:58|| 2006-08-26 03:58|| Front Page Top

#5 It's pretty hard to pack a wildcatter's cigar by accident.

"Lesse ... Plane Ticket, check! Shaving kit, check! Clean underwear, check! Stick of dynamite, check! Passport, check! ..."

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 04:34|| 2006-08-26 04:34|| Front Page Top

#6 A stick of dynamite was found in a college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina

This is what happens when you let an escaped Nazi war criminal pack your suitcase.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 04:37|| 2006-08-26 04:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Always bring your own bomb on a flight. The probability of two bombs on any plane approaches zero. (First year Psych Statistics 101)

Posted by john">john 2006-08-26 08:19|| 2006-08-26 08:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Ohhh, I hated statistics at a visceral level back in my student days! As the child of a research scientist I simply had to ask the professor, "So how do we know this is true?" expecting fascinating tales of studies done by bearded proto-statisticians in the 18th and 19th centuries, to match the chemists and biologists. But noooo -- the professor's pert answer was, "Well, it seems to work so far!" To heap insult on mental injury, when [the future] Mr. Wife the engineering student took the same course the following semester he went through the textbook exclaiming, "Oh!" and "Of course!". That's how the world works, he explained, only he'd never had just the formula to formalize it before. And I didn't hit him for it, not even once.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-26 11:50|| 2006-08-26 11:50|| Front Page Top

#9 It sounds like physical chemistry, TW. We used to say that a practicing physical chemist was the guy who loaded the drums on the truck.

Posted by SR-71 2006-08-26 12:28|| 2006-08-26 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 #1 I swear, I thought it was a penis pump...
Posted by Howard McFarland Fish

Inspector: It says here on the receipt one penis pump and one dynamite stick made out to ...

It says here on the credit card record, one penis pump and one dynamite stick made out to ...

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-08-26 13:11|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-08-26 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 dry runs?

Posted by Shush Sholuth7794 2006-08-26 14:11|| 2006-08-26 14:11|| Front Page Top

#12 If they practice enough, SR-71, eventually they'll get it right?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-26 14:36|| 2006-08-26 14:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Or they could be trying to overwhelm the system with numerous false positives, causing a drop in efficiency and laudable caution. THEN they send in the real kamikazees.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-08-26 20:25|| 2006-08-26 20:25|| Front Page Top

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