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2004-01-20 Britain

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Posted by Steve 2004-01-20 3:41:24 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Story after story after story and yet people still do this.

Posted by Rafael 2004-1-20 3:51:48 PM|| 2004-1-20 3:51:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Idiot! Don't jail her. Make her walk back to Britian.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-20 3:55:08 PM|| 2004-1-20 3:55:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Michael Dukakis got some 'bad press' about ten years ago for muttering the same lame joke at Logan Int'l.

Agreed, Rafael, some people will never learn.

Posted by Raj 2004-1-20 4:04:03 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-1-20 4:04:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Her 'da is 75 and she's 21!??

The dirty old coot. Did he toss her mum over for a newer model?

Posted by Anonymous2u 2004-1-20 5:23:22 PM|| 2004-1-20 5:23:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 According to the arrest report, Ms Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration screener: "Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here" - before allegedly repeating the joke twice more when confronted by officials.

One word: D-U-M-B-A-S-S.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-20 6:01:01 PM|| 2004-1-20 6:01:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in 1989, I was a speaker at a Democratic Party event in Dallas. Owing to a series of screwups (common at these events) I found myself without transportation back to the airport.

I accepted a ride from one of the guests, who turned out to be a local religious right activist who had attended to see what sort of dirt he could dig up on us.

He was pleasant enough on the way to the airport, though a bit odd. At one point, a car ran a stop sign in front of us. He commented that this was obviously the work of Satan, who was no doubt seeking to do me in before I could see the light and come over to the Falwell/Robertson side of things.

Continuing to be helpful, he offered to carry one of my bags when we got to the terminal. Having 3 bags, two hands, and very little time, I gratefully accepted.

As we entered the concourse, he commented very loudly, "This is kinda' heavy, IT MUST BE THE ONE WITH THE BOMB IN IT!"

I was released after several hours of grilling and FBI checks, but my erstwhile helper spent a night in jail before the less-than-amused judge relieved him of about a thousand dollars in fines and let him go.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-1-20 6:29:24 PM|| [http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2004-1-20 6:29:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The best one I've heard yet happened at an airport near here. A guy gets to the terminal, gets to the check-in line, and has his carry-on bag searched. There's a clockwork device in his luggage, with a couple of round objects attached to it. The entire security apparatus goes bonkers, and the airport's locked down. The bomb squad arrives, and carefully removes the cuckoo clock from the carry-on case. The guy had told them he had a cuckoo clock in his bags, even shown it at the ticket window, but the baggage screeners STILL went bonkers. Sometimes, security can get a bit overblown, and needs a little common sense. At the same time, ignoring something like that could cost someone a commercial airline - or worse. The tough part's drawing the line between too much and too little.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-20 8:27:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-20 8:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Samantha Marson is only a five on today's idiocy scale. The girl who flew off the F-150 powered carousel was a curve buster. Samantha should have tried yesterday.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-20 8:35:58 PM|| 2004-1-20 8:35:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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