Nobody in their right mind would ever mistake that purse for a real gun. This isn't about the purse, it's about the TSA.

I may have mentioned this, but if you hire idiots to run your security, you don't really have much security. Or, sometimes people who work cheap may do so for good reason.

No, it's about idiots equating perception with reality.

Javacrucian: Nobody in their right mind would ever mistake that purse for a real gun.

"To professionalize, you must federalize." -- Tom Daschle

Didn't work out so well. Surprise.

These TSA heros are doing their best to protect us against the really, really bad Islam bad guys who would take r freedoms in a new york minute, if it wasn't for Bloomberg and his army in ny ny. god bless Bloomberg and his incredible army which is protecting my ass. Thank you sir and your legion of room temperature IQ minions.

Obviously the only correct solution is to make the government bigger and give it more powers.

There are probably many other important points that need to be and will be made in this thread, but I just want to point out that that's a really farking stupid looking purse.

netweavr: The TSA probably just wanted an excuse to grope her.

According to the article, someone already has.

jbuist: "To professionalize, you must federalize." -- Tom Daschle

Didn't work out so well. Surprise.

Sounds like a punchline from "1000 Ways to Die." Just pause for a beat before surprise.

I wonder if she carried this purse to school. I wouldn't be at all surprised if zero tolerance rules kicked in if she did.

At any rate, someone needs to remind the TSA that you never go full retard.

After agents figured out the gun was a fake

Lulz.

There's a Southwestern commercial where a man is excited about not paying bag fees. In his celebration he uses double finger guns. I wonder how well that would go over in actuality.

Britney Spear's Speculum: Bathia_Mapes: I wouldn't be at all surprised if zero tolerance rules kicked in if she did.

I think Florida got rid of that.

Enigmamf: No pictures of said purse?

Did you watch the video included with the article?

Next up: TSA detains somebody with a picture of a picture of the purse in question, because it's a replica of a replica of the real thing.

Also, I loved the comment of somebody below the article: "Sounds to me like the TSA just doing their job." Precisely.

F*ck the TSA. And the Department of Homeland Security. Both should not exist.

There was no real need to say that she was pregnant.

Rezurok: Bathia_Mapes: Britney Spear's Speculum: Bathia_Mapes: I wouldn't be at all surprised if zero tolerance rules kicked in if she did.

I think Florida got rid of that.

Enigmamf: No pictures of said purse?

Did you watch the video included with the article?

All I get is a video shaped white box in firefox, black in chrome, and half loaded page in ie. I'm guessing it's not just me.

I get that too. And I'm always damn sure that I have Flash and Java updates.

/Using Waterfox
//A custom-compiled 64-bit browser with SSE and SSE2 support.
///It's farking awesome.

Phony_Soldier: USA USA USA!!!


/WTF happened to our country???

9/11 came and took our freedom away.

Rezurok: Did you watch the video included with the article?

All I get is a video shaped white box in firefox, black in chrome, and half loaded page in ie. I'm guessing it's not just me.

Same here - except I didn't try FF. Screw 'em if they can't make a video work in Chrome. Almost every other website can.

OK, I think I might have to defend the TSA here.

Replica weapons are illegal, and judging from the picture, that thing looks pretty realistic-except for being a bit small.

But a small pistol could still be a weapon. Anyone who has ever watched Pawn Stars has seen some pretty incredible miniature weapons. Would a pilot who saw that pointed at him know if it was a replica or not? Maybe-maybe not. That is why replica weapons are prohibited.

The real issue is how would you write a rule. "Well if it is really really small, then it is OK, but if it is just real small, then it is illegal". There is no practical way you could write a set of guidelines- and so the TSA is going to err on the side of caution.

That said, it probably could have been handled better. Although the woman could probably have used better judgement in her selection of fashion accessories. Personally, I think she was looking to generate a confrontation.

A pregnant 17 year old, Florida, and the TSA. It's the perfect storm of derp.

mr_a: OK, I think I might have to defend the TSA here.

Replica weapons are illegal, and judging from the picture, that thing looks pretty realistic-except for being a bit small.

But a small pistol could still be a weapon. Anyone who has ever watched Pawn Stars has seen some pretty incredible miniature weapons. Would a pilot who saw that pointed at him know if it was a replica or not? Maybe-maybe not. That is why replica weapons are prohibited.

The real issue is how would you write a rule. "Well if it is really really small, then it is OK, but if it is just real small, then it is illegal". There is no practical way you could write a set of guidelines- and so the TSA is going to err on the side of caution.

That said, it probably could have been handled better. Although the woman could probably have used better judgement in her selection of fashion accessories. Personally, I think she was looking to generate a confrontation.

If she got into the cockpit with a purse, that pilot deserved to get hijacked for violating the new regulations that prohibit him from opening the cockpit door while the plane is in flight.

And if that little chicklet managed to convince everyone on board she was a terrorist and would kill everyone on board, they deserved to die. And don't give me that about "anybody could be a terrorist"--she is about as likely to be a terrorist as my 96-year old aged grandmother. You're just a jackass.

Rezurok: Bathia_Mapes: Britney Spear's Speculum: Bathia_Mapes: I wouldn't be at all surprised if zero tolerance rules kicked in if she did.

I think Florida got rid of that.

Enigmamf: No pictures of said purse?

Did you watch the video included with the article?

All I get is a video shaped white box in firefox, black in chrome, and half loaded page in ie. I'm guessing it's not just me.

I got it to load by temporarily disabling AdBlock. However, someone did post a picture in the thread.

Phony_Soldier: USA USA USA!!!


/WTF happened to our country???

Dumb Bureaucracy mostly.

We can kill every evil farker in the world twice over and not get rid of all the stupid, because the stupid is what keeps things going this way.

Phony_Soldier: USA USA USA!!!


/WTF happened to our country???

We got what we wanted? At least when I spent the better part of a decade telling people it would come to this I was called a coward, cowardice, a traitor, traitorous, treasonous, anti-American, terrorist sympathizer, etc. So I figure if so many people would call me such horrible names over the fact that I was against this, well then this must be something we really, really wanted. Congrats, USA, you are almost a bona-fide 3rd world police state. Keep it up and we'll reach our goal ahead of schedule!!!

This country needs to get its shiat together so desperately in so many ways.