Once again we have those who want their guns ignoring the rules when they think they can get away with it. So long as they get their way, the laws and rules be damned.
That this woman must have known she was in the wrong is evident by her disappearance. She could have attempted to resolve the problem, but she didn't.
Guns, grenades, C4 explosives? No. These don't belong in the cabins of our airlines. I don't believe anyone needs to be transporting either a live grenade or C4 plastic explosives on a commercial flight, and I seriously question anyone legitimately having these items AT ALL.
Not even in Texas, which is a state that sometimes has an air of unreality about it.
Confiscating a cupcake on the other hand? You've got to be kidding.
From the Huffington Post:
American Airlines Passenger Arrested With Gun On Plane
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Authorities say that a 65-year-old woman was taken into custody Wednesday after carrying a gun on to an American Airlines plane at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
An airline spokesman said Wednesday that the plane was headed for the runway when it returned to the gate and was met by airport police.
Security screeners detected a handgun in the woman's carry-on bag, but she "picked up the bag and left the checkpoint before the screening process was over," said Greg Soule, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which operates the checkpoints.
Soule said he didn't know if the gun, a .38-caliber revolver, was loaded. He said that when TSA screeners spot a gun in a bag, they are supposed to seize the bag and notify police.
It was not clear how authorities tracked down the woman's flight. It was about an hour and 40 minutes later that she was taken into custody by DFW Airport police, Soule said.
Airport officials declined to talk about the incident but issued a brief written statement saying that the woman would be charged with carrying a gun into a place where weapons are prohibited, a third-degree felony in Texas and punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
People who bring a gun to an airport checkpoint are subject to civil penalties. It's up to local law enforcement agencies to decide whether to lodge criminal charges, according to the TSA.
American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said the woman was removed from Flight 2385, scheduled to fly to Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport. The flight was delayed for just over an hour and other passengers were screened again before the plane took off, he said.
About 10 other flights were also delayed up to 25 minutes after the TSA closed DFW's Terminal D, Smith said. The terminal, one of five, is used for international flights and some domestic flights.
The incident comes amid heightened criticism of TSA.
A soldier arrested on Dec. 31 at the Midland, Texas, airport with C4 explosives in his bag said he probably carried the bomb material on a flight from North Carolina to Texas. Screeners delayed him after finding and confiscating a smoke grenade, but let him on that first flight.
In other cases, screeners have been overzealous. TSA Administrator John Pistole said in letters made public this week that screeners at New York's Kennedy Airport violated procedures this fall by asking 85- and 88-year-old women to show them medical devices concealed under their clothes. The women said they felt as if they had been strip-searched.
Screeners in Las Vegas were criticized this month for confiscating a traveler's frosted cupcake.
Why exactly would I want to be disarmed, stripped and plucked, inspected like a piece of chicken, only to be crammed into a metal tube with a hundred or so other victims and thrown through the air? I'll drive myself, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI like flying, although my preference is for private plane flight. Much more fun.
ReplyDeletePrivate planes are the way to go. Pull up to the terminal, walk out to the plane, and take-off. No need to be there an hour early and no security check to go through.
ReplyDeleteI once had the luxury of flying on a customers private jet. That was even nicer than the turboprops I have flown on for other work related travel.
"Why exactly would I want to be disarmed, stripped and plucked, inspected like a piece of chicken, only to be crammed into a metal tube with a hundred or so other victims and thrown through the air? I'll drive myself, thanks.
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As long as you don't wear that Halloween costume that you think makes you look like James Butler Hickok..
I've only flown a couple of dozen times since September 11, 2001--so my sample may not be big enough--I've never been strip-searched, cavity probed or maltreated in any way. I did have a Swiss Army Knife confiscated but it was my fault for bringing it. The TSA guy was quite apologetic and asked if someone had brought me and might still be at the airport to retrieve it.
"I did have a Swiss Army Knife confiscated but it was my fault for bringing it. "
ReplyDeleteThat's a good little slave. Just the way you're supposed to think.
MAGunner writesThat's a good little slave. Just the way you're supposed to think.
ReplyDeleteThere are places which are appropriate, and places which are not, for various items, including knives.
Democommie recognizes that. Foolish people like you try to mis-characterize what is and is not legal, is and is not appropriate as something that is melodramatic, and just plain silly.
You could bring your chain saw or your lawn mower to a formal wedding, but it would be inappropriate..... And stupid. But that it is al it is. Being appropriate and legal is not the same thing as being a slave.
Or don't you know when to wear your pants and shoes either?
Because, clearly, not everyone who flies gets that either....
This guy
http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2011/06/21/man-flies-us-airways-in-womens-underwear-photo/
is wild and free, nobody's slave.
But I wouldn't particularly want to sit next to him on a long flight either.
He can go be free with his clothes on - all of them.
MAGunner...........that wasn't YOU was it?
ReplyDeleteDog Gone,
ReplyDeleteToo many do have a slavish mentality that whatever the man in the uniform says must be correct. We need more nonconformists.
Greg, or as it is also known, "Freedom in Chains".
ReplyDeleteDC - you were not detained for trying to smuggle a weapon on board the plane? Sounds like some lax security if they just let you pass on by after catching you trying something like that.
ReplyDeleteYou can call it a slavish mentality if you like, but I wouldn't want to be on a plane with that armed woman. I don't like the idea of trusting gun owners to behave themselves, and in a confined space, the problem is that much worse.
ReplyDeleteMAholewittehgunz:
ReplyDeleteI invite you to attempt to carry one of your cherished inanimate objects that sometimes wind up, GOD alone knows how, being involved in people getting dead onto a commercial airliner. I know that you claim to do this at all pro-sports venues (which I think is a lie) but, by all means, give it a shot at Logan.
You think I'm a slave? I can leave my house without a bullet spewin' cruthch, pal--even when I walk my little doggie late at night.
"Dog Gone,
Too many do have a slavish mentality that whatever the man in the uniform says must be correct. We need more nonconformists.
January 19, 2012 9:43 PM"
Do you own an irony meter, moron? You're oneathem state employee layabouts that people like to criticize for hooverin' up teh benjamins and doing nothing to earn them. Let me know when your bosses don't have a fair amount of input about what you have to say in the classroom, slave
Jim sez:
ReplyDelete"I once had the luxury of flying on a customers private jet. That was even nicer than the turboprops I have flown on for other work related travel."
Did you happen to mention to the pilot or anyone else that you were packin' heat while a passenger? Did you check state and local laws to ensure that it was permissible to have an unsecured (as in stowed in baggage in a locked container) firearm on the airport's premises--at both ends of the flight?
Democommie,
ReplyDeleteSo you'd prefer uneducated workers? If you really want to maintain that colleges provide no value in the economy, you'll have to admit that you want no high technology jobs, no white collar jobs, no lawyers (tempting, perhaps. . .) and so forth.
If what you suggested in your rant ever came true, you'd need a lot of guns whenever you went out to walk your dog.
Demo - I have never carried a gun in my life. I just support the right of lawful citizens to choose to do so if they feel they need to.
ReplyDeleteAs to the private plane, I think the pilot and/or owner has the jurisdiction on what they will or will not allow on board the plane.
And you skipped the part about whether or not you were detained for trying to board a plane with a deadly weapon.
"I invite you to attempt to carry one of your cherished inanimate objects that sometimes wind up, GOD alone knows how, being involved in people getting dead onto a commercial airliner."
ReplyDeleteI fly with my Glock 7 every time. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on airport metal detectors and probably costs more than what you make in a month.
"MAgunowner said....
ReplyDeleteI fly with my Glock 7 every time. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on airport metal detectors and probably costs more than what you make in a month."
I love it! That porcelain gun joke gets funnier every time I read it!
I cant believe anyone hasn't caught on yet.
As of today, friday march 30, all charges on this woman that carried the gun onto the plane were dropped. The grand jury found no evidence of any ill will on her part, a simple mistake, no malace intended. No grand jury indictment, no charges.
ReplyDeleteIf she has a CHL, she will keep it. No criminal record for her on this incedent.
Texas Colt carry, I'm not surprised. That's they way it usually goes with gun owners who do stupid things with their guns.
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