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[LoreleiRaven]

http://news.yahoo.co...-221835034.html

This actually kind of bugs me. It's taking it to extremes when now passengers have to be wary of what designs are on their clothes and bags.

I understand they just want everything and everyone to be safe... but this new level of paranoia is a little much.

[Veteran]

I wonder when I visit the states whether I'd get detained for wearing a Benedict Arnold t-shirt!

[LoreleiRaven]

You might... If he is carrying a gun

[deep]

hahaha.

That's ludicrous. If I never fly again it will be too soon.

[Oberon Storm]

In light of other news she's lucky they didn't decide to hand her over to the military to be held indefinitely.

[Khallos]

No one stopped me carrying acid on to a plane though, I could have damaged some marble flooring!

[arunma]

As much as I hate the TSA (and the Obama administration for campaigning on ceasing the war on terror yet continuing to sanction Bush-era policies), I have to say that this isn't really that outrageous. After all, the 9/11 highjackers accomplished their objective with boxcutters, and might have even gotten away with it if they were using replica weapons. Is it really that hard to believe that some idiot on the plane won't mistake the purse for the real thing and spread mass paranoia? I could totally see terrorists using a pregnant teen to get a replica weapon on a plane, and then passing it off to the Arab-looking dude (no, I don't support racial profiling).

Now, some common sense would have been nice here. But of all the bad things the TSA has done, I don't think this is so bad. Even before 9/11, you couldn't say "bomb" on an airplane. This is sort of the same thing.

[Oberon Storm]

If it was an actuall replica it would be one thing. This was a picture. A picture on a purse. Not a replica.

[arunma]

True, but it's a picture with some depth. Cut it out of the purse and I could see it being reasonably mistaken (by someone with bad eyesight) for a gun. Especially in close quarters when you've got it pressed against somebody or something. Like I said, seems to me a lot like saying bomb on an airplane.

[LoreleiRaven]

Bad eyesight or not... this is a very small clutch purse, with a hollow design on it that would fit in your closed hand. I believe it is too small, especially when cut from the purse, to be mistaken as a real gun.

I do not see why it warranted such an investigation that caused this girl to miss her flight, and then be put on a plane going to a different city than where she was supposed to be going.