TSA's Repurposed Mall Workers Confuse "F-Bomb" For Actual Bomb
Security at our airports is now provided by The Three Stooges.
Lisa Simeone posts at TSA News Blog that a 4 x 2" decorative paperweight was confiscated by our costumed fake cops at airports, aka TSA workers, and crowed about on their website:
It is an "F Bomb Paperweight," a piece of art handmade by Fred Conlon and selling for $45. Quoting from the F Bomb's blurb:It's never easy dropping truth bombs in the office. But "f" bombs? Always explosive fun! Fred Conlon's recycled steel sculpture lightens up desk-side chats and tough conversations with a delightfully abstract expletive appropriate for any situation. Handmade in Utah....But look -- it has that special "f" attached -- you know, the one that looks like a Facebook "f". Why, what evil plot is on display here? Could this be some kind of secret signal? Is Facebook, with its global reach, in on some scheme to spread fear and Terror™ at airports everywhere? Is this a Trial Run™? Why, if the TSA stops confiscating F Bomb Paperweights, thinking they're benign, then someday somebody could come in with a real bomb (that looks like something out of a cartoon) and before you know it, boom!
I get chills just thinking about it. Thank god the TSA is here to save us all.
And just think -- maybe whoever stole the F Bomb can trade it for the "grenade-shaped" perfume bottle, or maybe the "knuckle-clasp" purse, or perhaps just the embossed purse, or the toy lighter, or the shoes, or any number of other things.
That is the funniest (and inane) thing I've seen in a while. It almost looks like the bombs Spy vs. Spy use in Mad Magazine. Maybe that's where TSA gets their training.
T - Totally
S - Sucks
A - A__
the other Patrick at September 4, 2014 7:33 AM
Except the Spy vs. Spy bombs always blew up in the wrong spy's face!
What would be cool: If the fuse on the F-Bomb had one of those seventies-style fiber optic lights at the end, to simulate sparks.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at September 4, 2014 8:32 AM
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
Hey, at least the Stooges were funny. Ok, I thought they were funny.
I R A Darth Aggie at September 4, 2014 8:51 AM
Even if [items like this] are novelty items, you cannot bring them on a plane.
You are not allowed to take novelty items onto a plane? Um...why not?
Oh, because TSA says so, that fine them...
/sarcasm
a_random_guy at September 4, 2014 9:43 AM
So, now TSA agents are on the lookout for a hunched over man wearing black clothing, a black cape, and top hat who is often seen twirling his long handlebar mustache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snidely_Whiplash
Conan the Grammarian at September 4, 2014 10:13 AM
They gotta catch this guy first.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at September 4, 2014 12:13 PM
Moose and Squirrel are on the job as we speak.
Conan the Grammarian at September 4, 2014 12:25 PM
The TSA is staffed by repurposed mall workers. They show stupidity all the time. But, we can forgive them, because teachers and school boards show the same behavior. Educators have no excuse. They have been chosen to teach the next generations how to behave, and only supposedly how to think and reason.
It appears ridiculous, that school administrators would confuse the picture of a weapon or an imaginary weapon with an actual weapon. Those administrators see the thought as being close to the act. They want to stamp out the thought, and terrorize children into never even thinking about edicts passed down from their rulers.
For the TSA and our government, we are the children.
The idea of Thought Crime and the "two minute hate" was explained in George Orwell's novel "1984" published in 1949. It is a fictional warning about a future under complete government control. The novel was informed by Orwell's experiences in the British Communist party. He awoke to write a warning.
Wags have noted that "1984" was a warning, but Progressives have used it as an instruction manual.
See the full text of George Orwell's "1984" here with more about Orwell at msxnet dot org/orwell/
Andrew_M_Garland at September 4, 2014 1:23 PM
The original method of setting off a "bomb" like this was to blast it out of a smooth-bore cannon. How many terrorists have such weapons?
jefe at September 4, 2014 8:21 PM
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