No Humor Allowed In The New Police State
During the Valentine's Day weekend, Baul, a former traveling clown and community radio DJ, was traveling through the Philadelphia International Airport with a basket of confetti-filled eggs.That's when Baul says an inquiring TSA agent stopped her in her tracks.
"She wasn't investigating my eggs, I had already been through the x-ray machine (with no problems)," said Baul. "She said, 'What are those?' and I said, 'Well, they're eggs filled with confetti'."
Baul says that she then gave the agent a closer look at one of the eggs, by breaking it over the woman's head.
"I put it over her head," said Baul. "I did't think anything of it."
The TSA agent was not amused, and soon the Bunny Lady found herself in handcuffs and being hauled off to the airport's jail for three hours. She now faces a misdemeanor harassment charge.
via Lisa Simeone
FFS, are we so bereft of humor now that "armed and dangerous" now includes plastic eggs filled with paper? Or was it the bunny suit? Maybe that poor TSA agent had a run in with a rabbit similar to Ol' Jimmeh Carter, and just couldn't take the strain! PTSD will do that to a person, ya know! Or maybe it was the...cartoons.....
P-P-P-Please, TSA! Don't throw me out. Don't you realize you're making a big mistake? I didn't kill anybody. I swear! The whole thing's a set up. A scam, a frame job. Ow! TSA, I could never hurt anybody. Oow! My whole purpose in life is to make... people... laugh!
Kat at April 8, 2011 8:05 AM
Arrest and charges? No.
A clown breaking confetti eggs over strangers' heads? No, no, no as well. This is why people hate clowns and such.
Kevin at April 8, 2011 8:06 AM
A clown breaking confetti eggs over strangers' heads? No, no, no as well. This is why people hate clowns and such.
Well said, Kevin.
Though really, anyone who thought that breaking a confetti egg over the head on a TSA official was a good idea is a few bottles short of a six pack.
Christopher at April 8, 2011 8:09 AM
cascarones! Can't have easter without them in texas.
momof4 at April 8, 2011 8:27 AM
Really, it isn't anything less then I have come to expect from the post 9/11 era. After all, those eggs could have been laced with nerve gas, dont'cha know.
Although, can you imagine being that TSA agent, and standing in front of a Judge, saying:
"Yes Your Honor. She tried to tickle my funny bone. I felt so violated! *sniff* The confetti was everywhere!"
Kevin's right though, can you imagine this same bunny doing the same thing in the street to a private citizen? Methinks a few people might not be so impressed. Especially the Babakophobic's. ;)
Angel at April 8, 2011 8:41 AM
The whole point of the TSA is to be humor-impaired.
brian at April 8, 2011 9:09 AM
What are the odds that the TSA agent's name was E. Fudd?
Goo at April 8, 2011 9:47 AM
A number of years ago, before TSA became T&A Groping, I was flying from New York to Boston for a friend's Halloween weekend party. It was Halloween night. I went to the airport dressed in my Living Dead costume, wearing my coat, but no make-up on purpose on my part to be accommodating. No problem getting through screening. Waiting at my airplane terminal, I went into the bathroom and put on my make-up. I went back to the gate in full costume. No problems. Entering the plane the greeting pilot and flight attendants were amused. No problems. I wonder if I would have no problems today.
hadsil at April 8, 2011 10:32 AM
For confetti? Really? Harassment? Where are we going with our society?
NikkiG at April 8, 2011 11:30 AM
The whole point of the TSA is to be humor-impaired.
This.
Christopher at April 8, 2011 12:58 PM
Can't believe noone got the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" ref, one of my all time fave movies, and damn if the TSA doesn't remind me of the weasels.
Kat at April 8, 2011 2:22 PM
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