Utah's biggest ambulance chaser, on TV all the time.
Forgot about the loaded gun in briefcase.
A mistake. Oh well. He should know the law by now. Let's see how Law Enforcement handles things. Sounds like this has happened at least 1100 times before.
I am sort of guilty of a similar offense. A week prior to flying home to visit my parents for a week, I went camping. I put a Buck 110 knife in a side pocket of one of my bags, along with a few other things for camping. Guess what? I took that same bag back home a week later. Forgot to take the knife out. I got through the first airport, flew all the way home, and rented a car for a week.
On the way back during the security screening, they asked me if they could look at my knife. I replied "What knife?" So, they took it out of my bag, unfolded it, checked it out and put it back in my bag. Ooooops.....that knife...
This happened before 9-11 in the year 2000 when they were a little more relaxed with that kind of thing. I wouldn't want to make that mistake these days...
Speaking of guns....
What's the shotgun for?
A man in rural Wisconsin wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof. So, he looks in the yellow pages, and sure enough, there's an ad for "Up North Bear Removers." He calls the number, and the bear remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes.
The bear remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a mean old pit- bulldog .
"What are you going to do?" the homeowner asks.
"I'm going to put this ladder up against the building, then I'm going to climb up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat. When the bear falls off the roof, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles, and not let go. The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van."
He then hands the shotgun to the homeowner. "What's the shotgun for?" asks the homeowner.
"If the bear knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog."
Speaking of guns....
Well that was good, Ed. LOL, as they say.
You seem in a better mood, BTW.
Happy to see that,
Don
Beerleg,
It's a matter of showing common sense. You appeared to have made an oversight. No big deal then. Now...whole different ball game. A few years ago I flew out of Newport News Va to fla. specifically to get to Sanibel Island. Went thru the check and all was good. When I arrived in Miami I went thru my carry on to get something..... Ughh. had six shotgun shells in the bag that no one caught. It was my hunting bag that I used for a temp luggage...never thought to check...simple oversight. I dumped them in a restroom trash can. TSA is a joke to some extent. I would have been arrested and they would not have believed anything other than what the minions were allowed to. HLS fails many times to listen. I was lucky.
Speaking of guns....
> Well that was good, Ed. LOL, as they say.
> You seem in a better mood, BTW.
> Happy to see that,
>
> Don
Aww, Don, I have my moments. Like everybody else. In and out. Up and down.
I tell ya what, though, living with a spouse who suffers with dementia is prone to drive one wacky-nanners from time to time. I could apologise for my lapses in judgement, but it wouldn't make any difference. Thank you for noticing my 'good times', however.
Take care, fella.
Ed
Ed
I think that we have talked to each other for a long time, so, yeah, when I'm not being too stupid, it's not hard for me to see when you're not happy. I think, in the past, I've even spouted some sort of meaningless crap or another in a futile attempt to amuse you, make you feel differently, whatever, just trying to help myself, really, as much as you.
I have a stupid little essay that I've been working on (and I'm gonna lay it out somewhere soon) in which I try but, almost certainly, fail to explain what I believe to be real. I'll share it with you when I'm done.
It's pretty important, vitally important, I think, to...no, no, wait. I'm going to STOP. Who the hell am I to preach, sheesh.
Good night, Ed
Don
Ed
> I think that we have talked to each other for a long time, so, yeah, when I'm not being too stupid, it's not hard for me to see when you're not happy. I think, in the past, I've even spouted some sort of meaningless crap or another in a futile attempt to amuse you, make you feel differently, whatever, just trying to help myself, really, as much as you.
>
> I have a stupid little essay that I've been working on (and I'm gonna lay it out somewhere soon) in which I try but, almost certainly, fail to explain what I believe to be real. I'll share it with you when I'm done.
>
> It's pretty important, vitally important, I think, to...no, no, wait. I'm going to STOP. Who the hell am I to preach, sheesh.
>
> Good night, Ed
>
> Don
Hey there now, fella. You can't stop there. You can "preach" all you want. That "stupid little essay" of yours' might mean a lot more to a lot of people than you might realize. Eh?
Anyway, you're a 'good egg' in my book, brother. And thank you for noticing. I ain't dying, or anything. I am one pissed off pragmatic SOB from time to time, but that's nothing to be bent outa shape about. I would really like to hear what you think. About, hell, anything. I'm 'fer' ya, brother.
Take care,
Ed
Circa 2003 I flew with my normal bathroom stuff bag, in my carry on. Aside from the toothbrush, etc it also contained a cool nail clipper that was a Christmas present from about 10 ys prior from my youngest daughter. She was likely 5 or so.
It had Santa on one side, and a Christmas tree on the other side. Very cool, aside from being very special. It also had your typical nail file stuff. Unfortunately it also had a small knife blade (about 1" long). The entire thing was about 2" long.
The bitch pulled it out, examined it, looked at me and asked "Sir, does this belong to you". To which I said "yes, it is my nail clippers and happens to be a gift from my daughter".
They confiscated it, in spite of my insistance not to. But I yielded before I got arrested. TSA has been broken since its inception, and is just getting worse. They should just go back to plain old "random" profiling and save everybody a lot of time and money.
I just had to forfeit a $10 pocket knife on Thursday, forgot to clean my pockets out and TSA caught it, wasn't worth going back through security screening to save.
It was a baby Swiss Army knife, but still a knife.
SHG
> I just had to forfeit a $10 pocket knife on Thursday, forgot to clean my pockets out and TSA caught it, wasn't worth going back through security screening to save.
>
> It was a baby Swiss Army knife, but still a knife.
>
> SHG
One of many reasons it will take an absolute EMERGENCY to get me on a commercial flight again until the TSA is at least figuratively "Stood Against the Wall".
:bad:
Several years ago I endured a 13 hour (overnight) layover in Cairo , and it's one of those airports where you DON'T close your eyes unless you are within the “Secure Area” (which I wasn't for about 11 hours).
Well, about 05:30am they let me through the security checkpoint (X-ray etc.) with my luggage in tow.
Just as I emerged from the metal detector, a loud buzzer went off, and the X-Ray Dude grabbed my sleeve and pointed to the screen of the X-ray machine. Low and behold, there was an Uzi in MY BAG! I mean, it sure looked like one (even to me).
By this time there were SEVERAL AK-47s pointed at me by unfriendly Egyptian Military types, and I was about to wet my pants! Just then dawned on me what we were looking at...it was a rather large (~18 inch tall, semi-obscene) statute (a take-off on the Min God) that I had bought in Sharm el-Sheikh for my downstairs bar.
Well I go into my “ah shucks Gomer Pyle” mode, and tell the X-Ray guy (the only English speaker) that it's OKAY, I know what that is...
Well I get my bag open and everybody sees what it IS and cracks up! The AK-47 guys wander off (shaking their heads, laughing and mumbling something in Arabic [“stupid American tourists” I suppose]), and I continue on my way to Amsterdam (with my statute).
My bags were checked through all the way to Salt Lake, so it was smooth from there on. And U.S. Customs didn't X-ray the bag in Minneapolis St. Paul. It probably got checked a few times between Cairo and Salt Lake though, because when I got home a few minor souvenir items WERE missing from that bag (cigarette case, lighter sleeve, etc.), but my statue was there.
One of my favorite travel stories, but it sure wasn't very funny (to me) at the time!
Loyal
A quick Google reveals that almost all representations of Min are semi-obscene and apparently he was left-handed;-)
Don
On my return flight to Oregon from North Carolina I had my first full body scan at RDU, they thought they had a live one, it was just my Chap stick in my jeans pocket, wasn't metal so I didn't remove, that shows up as a big anomaly on the screen, LOL.
SHG
