TRANS Passenger Allowed to Board Plane After Grenades Found in Luggage

Passenger Allowed to Board Plane After Grenades Found in Luggage
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Fox News....


It might seem uncommon for a passenger to be allowed on a plane after grenades are found in his luggage, but the Transportation Security Administration is standing by the procedure after reportedly doing just that on Tuesday.

Federal airport screeners found two grenades in the luggage of a man set to board a JetBlue flight at New York's Kennedy airport, according to MyFOXNY.com.

TSA specialists then determined that the explosives were inert and allowed the passenger to board the plane without ever informing police, the TV station's Web site reported.

The TSA maintained that it’s up to their own personnel to determine when to call police, and said the agency was reprimanded for notifying authorities in a similar incident last month, MyFOXNY.com reported.

The port authority police union told the station that this was a “blatant disregard for public safety.”

WTF!!!

Jarhead

Story from a few weeks ago. They were paperweights.

Still stupid to put them in your luggage and attempt to travel with them. Them whole terminal was evacuated two weeks ago because of it. Disrupted air travel for 2 hours.

bethshaya said:

Story from a few weeks ago. They were paperweights.

Still stupid to put them in your luggage and attempt to travel with them. Them whole terminal was evacuated two weeks ago because of it. Disrupted air travel for 2 hours.

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I think that this is another incident altogether.

Jarhead

So long as there is no explosive material in the grenades, I see no problem traveling with these.

Too often the TSA and other bureaucrats go over the top in prohibiting certain items - such as toy guns in schools and disarmed grenades on planes.

JMHO. . . . .

I don't know how many people remember the "Charlton Heston Bullet" that the NRA gave out a few years back. But, I had to take mine off the keychain. It seems another guy was unloading his pockets at the terminal and TSA spotted the fake bullet. I don't remember the exact details of the story, but it made national news... So, rather than put up with the hassle, I just took it off...

Yeah and Joe Foss got told he couldn't have his CMOH because it might be a weapon....we miss n poan about not using their kidneys and they DO and we miss and poan about that too....if they found them to be inert then there is NO reason to notify ANYONE....

Remember when retired Gen. Joe Foss was hasseled at the Arizona airport in 2002 because he wa carrying his MOH that was given to him by Pesident Truman? He was a top ace, having shot down 26 Jap planes in the Pacific. Sixty years later he is hasseled by TSA due to the MOH having five points on the medal.

Phil Ca said:

Remember when retired Gen. Joe Foss was hassled at the Arizona airport in 2002 because he was carrying his MOH that was given to him by President Truman? He was a top ace, having shot down 26 Jap planes in the Pacific. Sixty years later he is hassled by TSA due to the MOH having five points on the medal.

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Now that's a story that puts the high and low watermarks of our society in high-relief, PhilCA!

why is someone carrying paperweights in their luggage anyway, especially grenade shaped ones