• Teen Stopped for Replica Gun on Purse by TSA
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[quote=News4Jax]Jacksonville, FL, A teenage girl's sense of style got her in trouble at the airport. Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag. Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia. "It's my style, [B]it's camouflage[/B], it has an old western gun on it," Gibbs said. But her preference for the pistol style didn't sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport. 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, '[B]This is a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun[/B],'" Gibbs said. "I'm like, 'But it's a design on a purse. [B]How is it a federal offense?[/B]'" 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 teen missed her flight, and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead, worrying her mother, who was already waiting for her to arrive at JIA. "Oh, it's terrifying. I was so upset," said Tami Gibbs, the teen's mom. "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 mom 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 says "replica weapons have 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. [URL]http://www.news4jax.com/news/Teen-stopped-at-airport-for-design-on-purse/-/475880/4858586/-/qijcv5/-/index.html[/URL][/quote] It's camouflage...? What? News just keeps getting better and better.
Here we go! How is it a replica weapon. It's a textured design. It raises from the purse a bit for aesthetic quality. It can't even be held on its own.
Wat
This is how terrorism wins.
At first I was outraged, thinking it was just a printed design or something. Then I saw the video. [img]http://i.imgur.com/myFeZ.jpg[/img] I mean yeah, it's common sense that it's fake - but I can see how it would raise [i]some[/i] concern.
She should be imprisoned for crimes against fashion with that sort of design.
....The fuck?
Inb4 people say TSA is right
That purse is one of the ugliest things i have ever seen, But i don't see how it could be mistaken for a gun.
Another image: [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/02/article-2069023-0F06B90100000578-604_468x286.jpg[/img] Again, it is fake, but it's still pretty darn realistic. You'd have to be stupid to think that's a real gun, but you'd also have to be stupid to try and TAKE THAT THROUGH AN AIRPORT. Stupidity all around.
Might as well take people in for carrying around pictures of guns while they're at it.
wts is tsa?
[QUOTE=Virtanen;33542546]wts is tsa?[/QUOTE] American terrorism knee-jerk reaction that's basically only hurting its own people.
[QUOTE=simkas;33542529]Might as well take people in for carrying around pictures of guns while they're at it.[/QUOTE] I'm going to do that next time I go on a plane.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/99673/gun.png[/img] Yep, she's taking over a plane with that for sure. Seriously, give it an inspection and just move it along. There's no reason for it to be a big deal. To be fair to the TSA though, she missed her flight because of extra security which means she was probably pretty late to the airport. All the TSA did was inspect it manually, and that shouldn't take more than a few extra minutes. If she missed her flight because of that, then she was cutting it real close. It still doesn't excuse the fact that it still shouldn't be a big deal in the first place. Look at it quickly, open the bag, and move on.
I would pass this by if I saw it. When I saw the picture, I immediately thought of it as a design. It just doesn't make sense to even have a [i]real[/i] gun holstered like that.
Great, now a terrorist is going to smuggle a Peacemaker on to a plane in the same way, and because of this everyone will think it's just a design.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;33542585][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/99673/gun.png[/img][/QUOTE] oh wow, it looked a lot bigger in the other pictures, but in this it's the size of my fucking palm. yeah, okay TSA, it's a replica prostitute pistol, such a threat
[QUOTE=Virtanen;33542546]wts is tsa?[/QUOTE] High school GED owners in charge of putting on a show at all the country's airports to make people feel like something is being done to keep them from being flown into a building.
the TSA stole my zippo [editline]2nd December 2011[/editline] it wasn't even one of the $15 ones it was the sable one with Jim Beam etched on the side
[QUOTE=Miskav;33542565]American terrorism knee-jerk reaction that's basically only hurting its own people.[/QUOTE] DECIDE TO HAVE A RELIGION/BE A NATIONALITY THAT ISN'T WHITE, STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MALE? *SNAP* [I][U][B]CAVITY SEARCH[/B][/U][/I] DECIDE TO HAVE ANY SORT OF OFFENSIVE-LOOKING THING AT ALL THAT THE AGENT DOES NOT LIKE? [I][B][U]CAVITY SEARCH AND SIX HOURS IN A CELL WITH NO TRIAL OR CHARGES OR ANYTHING AT ALL.[/U][/B][/I] Welcome to America! Enjoy your stay! You're going to be here for a long time!
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33542737]oh wow, it looked a lot bigger in the other pictures, but in this it's the size of my fucking palm. yeah, okay TSA, it's a replica prostitute pistol, such a threat[/QUOTE] That's the wallet, not the purse.
This just in, Relief art is now considered the same as the real thing. All of Greece is banning itself for Pornography
tsa should eat a dick and stop fucking its american citizens
TSA is fucking dumb. On my Dad's last trip they took the underwear out of his bag and broke the keyboard on his laptop.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;33542509]Think of the children! Fuck man, at this rate of stupidity, mankind will kill ourselves before anything natural does.[/QUOTE] It's more like the stupidity of some people in your country will kill yourselves.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33543274]This just in, Relief art is now considered the same as the real thing. All of Greece is banning itself for Pornography[/QUOTE] Fuuuuck
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33543274]This just in, Relief art is now considered the same as the real thing. All of Greece is banning itself for Pornography[/QUOTE] Oh shit someone cover the Sistine Chapel before they declare painted art the real thing!
Oh hey, paranoia strikes again! While that's one realistic looking gun, all it takes is a good look or some scanning to find out 'oh hey its fake' aaaaaaaa
It looked like a gun, so they stopped her. She got caught in all the red tape they had to go through and missed her flight. I'd say what was she thinking carrying a bag like that in an airport but since she was pregnant at 17 it's probably been a long time since she actually thought at all.
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