LA Customs Frisk GI Joe (905 hits)
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Submitted by Andy Barr <zanz38.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2002-08-05 12:10:53 EDT
I'm putting this under Humor as this has to be the funniest thing i've ever heard!
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12070123,00.html
Security officers at Los Angeles Airport have confiscated a gun in a security scare - from a plastic toy soldier.
The two-inch weapon belonged to a GI Joe toy - similar to an Action Man.
A British tourist told how over-zealous security staff confiscated the two-inch-long plastic rifle from a GI Joe toy soldier she was taking home as a gift for her grandson.
Judy Powell, 55, bought the doll in Las Vegas as a gift for George, seven, and packed it in her hand luggage.
Stunned
But when she passed the bag through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, security staff spotted the tiny replica Armalite rifle.
Mrs Powell, from Walton on the Hill, Surrey, said: "I was simply stunned when I realised they were serious."
Security "examined the toy as if it was going to shoot them and looked at the rifle", she said.
They then told her that if she wanted GI Joe to keep his rifle, she would have to check in again and put the toy in her suitcase so it could go in the aircraft's hold.
Lunacy
Eventually, she agreed. Mrs Powell added: "I was really angry to start with because of the absurdity of the situation. But then I saw the funny side of it and thought this was simple lunacy."
A spokesman for Los Angeles International Airport said: "We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica.
"If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him."
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Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2003-10-15 23:04:07 EDT (#)
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someone kill me now. i can't live in a world where people are actually this stupid....
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2003-10-15 22:59:17 EDT (#)
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Thank Jebus for our security...think about how many GI Joes there are in America, then think...if they all planned something out, they could really do some damage!
Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-07 10:17:36 EDT (#)
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No we brush our teeth i belive you're thinking of the French!!
Submitted by _JP (user info) at 2002-08-07 10:08:33 EDT (#)
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I would rather come from a nation where we clean alligator teeth than a nation where you don't clean your own. {Joking!!}
Is there any truth to the stuff people say about the English's teeth? I alway hear references, but I can't say that I honestly know.
P.S. The GI Joe gun thing is really stupid.
Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-07 08:20:46 EDT (#)
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nice! bless them all. mind you we have some ecentric ppl over here too, did you hear about them latest craze sweeping the nation, " wheelbarrow freestyle" basicly doing Vert and street park tricks with a wheelbarrow
Submitted by poodz (user info) at 2002-08-07 08:04:17 EDT (#)
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no, missed that one. fhm are masterful at dumb american articles. i remember they did a great one full of stories about rednecks doing thick things like cleaning alligators teeth.
Submitted by Zanz38 (user info) at 2002-08-07 06:32:22 EDT (#)
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Cheers chief, did you see the FHM isue when they gave the top 10 most stupid dumbass US Ideas/acts?
Submitted by poodz (user info) at 2002-08-07 06:22:08 EDT (#)
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there a re so many americans here trying to promote their nation. but as we brits all know, it'll not be long before something comes along and humiliates the nation. god bless americans. especially the stupid ones.
nice one zanz. vfunny.
they let known terrorists into the country, allow them to learn to fly.
they let any redneck uneducated hicks have more firepower than an african dictatorship.
but watch out for the 12inch lump of plastic. they've been watching tioo much toy story.