My friend found this and e-mailed it to me as a warning for when I fly this summer to leave my bullet earrings at home.

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'Pistol pendant causes airport holdup' That's the headline from the Toronto Star which is reporting that Marnina Norys, a 39-year-old Ph.D. student in Canada, was stopped by security and prohibited from wearing her necklace into the terminal.Last week, security officials at Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia forced Norys to remove a silver necklace with a pendant in the shape of a Colt .45 pistol. The 2-inch pendant apparently was deemed a security risk. "When the woman pointed at the pendant I had no idea what she was talking about," Norys told the Star. "They made me feel ashamed, as if I should have known that it was wrong to wear this type of jewelry." An airport security official told Norys was told that replica firearms are banned from planes and that she'd have to check her jewelry.According to the Star, Dave Smith, director of screening operations with the Canadian Air Transport Authority (CATSA), issued a written apology to Norys and wrote that the screening officer "made a judgment call, rather than refer to CATSA's standard operating procedures. In retrospect, your revolver-shaped pendant is not a threat and should have been allowed on board the aircraft." --Roger Yu

www.usatoday.com/trave...yahoorefer

Daym.. and just yesterday I hgeard on the news that someone is refused to get to the plane for "WEARING A T-SHIRT WITH A PICTURE OF A GUN" !!!


goddam good fer nothing robots.

There is no accounting for the total lack of logic from any liberal.

A true "replica" has to be at least compairable in size, not including a minature jewelery bauble but how would a liberal government employee know that?

It's the same mindset that produced a furror over proposed flag desecration laws a few years back. Liberal politicians railed against it, saying folks would be arrested for wearing photos of flags on Tee shirts, swim suits, pants, etc; they really seemed to fear that people would not know a Tee shirt or photos, etc, are not flags! Well, okay, maybe they had a point so far as poorly trained/low IQ/over-paid government "security" employees are concerned. It's clear that at least some of those govies don't know the difference between a gun/replica and a minature bit of jewlery so maybe the whiners were right - in that way!

God help us, liberal lunatics have taken over the asylum.