TSA Seizes Sock Monkey’s Toy Gun

[Desperado]

Seriously can anyone at all defend the TSA on this one? The TSA has absolutely no credibility at all.


TSA agents in St. Louis, Missouri, disarmed Rooster Monkburn, a cowboy sock money, of his two-inch toy gun after a woman brought the stuffed monkey through security. Agents said that it posed a threat because it could be confused for a real gun, according to local reports.

“[The agent] said ‘this is a gun,’” said Phyllis May, recounting the experience to fly back to her home in Washington state. “I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey.”

TSA Seizes Sock Monkey's Toy Gun | National Review Online

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Again - you can't make this shit up.
Welcome to the new America.

 

[strollingbones]

looks like a hostile damn sock monkey to me!

 

[Spiderman]

That's too stupid to even be funny.

I'm flying out today and quite frankly I resent the fact that I can't carry my pocket knife. I feel naked without one. So I'll probably buy one when I get to my destination and then ship it home before I fly back.

 

[strollingbones]

growing up in the south....every boy and man had a pocket knife.....amazes me when men dont carry their pocket knifes.....they are inherited like guns

 

[Spiderman]

growing up in the south....every boy and man had a pocket knife.....amazes me when men dont carry their pocket knifes.....they are inherited like guns

Just another manly thing gone by the wayside.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

growing up in the south....every boy and man had a pocket knife.....amazes me when men dont carry their pocket knifes.....they are inherited like guns

Just another manly thing gone by the wayside.

Oh man...my dad gave me a Barlow knife when I was 10 or so...never went anywhere without it.

 

[jknowgood]

I thought obama took air force one to africa?