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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on December 03, 2011, 04:51:50 PM
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The handbag design that landed a girl in trouble
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A teenage girl’s sense of fashion got her into trouble on an American airport when she was detained by security because of the design on her handbag.
Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Gibbs’ purse drew more attention than she bargained for when its metal-embossed gun design was called a “federal offence” by security officials in Norfolk.
She was detained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and missed her flight.
A TSA agent reportedly told Gibbs that the gun design on her purse was illegal and that she should either give up her bag or check it.
The agents realised later that the three-inch gun design was not a real weapon but the pregnant Gibbs had already missed her flight to Jacksonville and had to be rerouted through Orlando.
"I carried this [bag] from Jacksonville to Norfolk, and I've carried it from Norfolk to Jacksonville. Never once has anyone said anything about it until now. It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it,” Gibbs told the local media.
“Common sense,” Gibbs added. “It’s a purse, not a weapon.”
http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/12238321/girl-detained-on-airport-over-handbag-design
(http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/111204/gunonpurse_257_17dl936-17dl94u.jpg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/02/article-2069023-0F06B8F500000578-722_468x286.jpg)
really they are that dumb they can not tell the difference between fashion or a real firearm....
and it is "for our safety" ::) ::)
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another article with more info
A teenage girl was stopped from boarding a flight because she had a gun - drawn on the side of her handbag.
Vanessa Gibbs, 17, was stunned when Transportation Security Administration officials stopped her at the security gate because of the design of an old wild west handgun.
Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, in Florida, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.
Controversy: Vanessa Gibbs holds up her purse, which TSA officials flagged up as a security risk. The 17-year-old ended up missing her flight
She said: 'It's my style, it's camouflage, it has an old western gun on it.
But staff at Norfolk airport were not keen on it and stopped her getting on board.
Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.
'She was like, "This is a federal offence because it's in the shape of a gun",' Gibbs said. 'I'm like, "But it's a design on a purse. How is it a federal offence?"'
After agents figured out the gun was a fake, Gibbs said, TSA told her to check the bag or turn it over.
By the time security wrapped up the inspection, the pregnant teenager had missed her flight, and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead, worrying her mother, who was already waiting for her to arrive.
Design: Gibbs said she was told it was a federal offence to take the purse through security because of the gun design on the front. She had got through Jacksonville airport okay but was stopped as she tried to fly home from Virginia
'Oh, it's terrifying. I was so upset,' said her mother Tami Gibbs.
'I was on the phone all the way to Orlando trying to figure out what was going on with her. It was terrifying. I don't ever want to go through it again.'
Vanessa and her mother said it's hard to believe anyone could mistake the design on the purse for a real gun because it's just a few inches in size and it's hollow, not to mention Vanessa has taken it on planes before.
'I carried this from Jacksonville to Norfolk, and I've carried it from Norfolk to Jacksonville,' Vanessa said. 'Never once has anyone said anything about it until now.'
TSA isn't budging on the handbag, arguing the phony gun could be considered a 'replica weapon'.
The TSA said: 'Replica weapons have been prohibited since 2002'.
It's a rule that Vanessa feels can't be applied to a purse.
'Common sense,' she said. 'It's a purse, not a weapon.'
A TSA official at JIA said it's not that uncommon for passengers to wear something that could be considered a gun replica, but the official encourages everyone to check the prohibited items list, which can be found online or at the airport before going through security, reports News4Jax.
more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069023/Vanessa-Gibbs-17-barred-flight-gun-handbag.html#ixzz1fVzjKfzM
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Your right philw, this is the same group that pats down and fondles 9 year olds, and makes 89 year old women remove their colostomy bags, and adult diapers.
Just remember, when real America has had enough of this crap, we're counting on a global "reset" including you guys Down Under.
The UK is too far up the arse's of the EU to save themselves.....
BTW, spoke to some crew on a yacht here that were Aussie's and Kiwi's, and they were telling me that back in the day, Aborigines were considered "pests" to land owners....and shot on sight.
True?
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Your right philw, this is the same group that pats down and fondles 9 year olds, and makes 89 year old women remove their colostomy bags, and adult diapers.
Just remember, when real America has had enough of this crap, we're counting on a global "reset" including you guys Down Under.
The UK is too far up the arse's of the EU to save themselves.....
BTW, spoke to some crew on a yacht here that were Aussie's and Kiwi's, and they were telling me that back in the day, Aborigines were considered "pests" to land owners....and shot on sight.
True?
back in the 1800's yep, was legal ;)
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TSA-Coming to an Interstate checkpoint near you.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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TSA-Coming to an Interstate checkpoint near you.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Papers please
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Papers please
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Oh, that could never happen here.
What do you mean I have to pay a $200 tax on my $3 silencer ?
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Oh, that could never happen here.
What do you mean I have to pay a $200 tax on my $3 silencer ?
I'm reminded of the movie Firefox when Clint is going through the countryside to steal the plane and the checkpoints they passed through.... shudder...... it's actually getting close to that.... :'(
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see my avatar... I'd love to inspect her... she has to be hiding something, just look at the size of her rear.
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Meant to post this earlier
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=18281.0;topicseen
From Magoo
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You are all missing the point...
She just might have had a picture of a bomb, too.
Or an illustration of a box-cutter...
Or a photograph of a terrorist...
Any one of those alone or in concert could easily bring down the idea of a passenger plane.
You guys need to think these things through before going off on the TSA
Sheesh...
Crusader
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Thanks Tom for posting that.
So I wonder what would happen if someone slipped a tin foil cut out of a gun in somebody's book in their carry on?
Not that I would ever do that ;D