Officials: Air passenger caught with dagger, throwing stars
Source: Associated Press
Officials: Air passenger caught with dagger, throwing stars
Updated 4:17 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) A Connecticut man has been arrested after authorities say he tried to bring martial arts weapons, including throwing stars, onto a plane in New York City.
The Transportation Security Administration says its officers stopped the man at a LaGuardia Airport checkpoint on Saturday after they detected weapons in his carry-on luggage.
TSA says the New Haven resident was carrying a dagger and several other weapons, including three throwing knives, a traditional throwing star and an expandable throwing star, also known as ninja stars.
Airport police confiscated the weapons and arrested the man. TSA hasn't released his identity.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Officials-Man-tried-to-bring-martial-arts-7423108.php
sakabatou
(42,134 posts)Those are TWO shuriken (throwing stars), three kunai (throwing knives) and a dagger. Some people don't do their terms correct.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)There was a DU post about a pastor who was stopped twice for trying to bring a gun in his carry on.
His excuse "Oops, God must be trying to teach me a lesson."
'Omaha pastor stopped for second time at airport with gun in carry-on'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141442724
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)OOPS, for sure.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)It had to be that since there's no way they didn't see it.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)with those items in his luggage - ie something they saw, and acted on.
ToxMarz
(2,162 posts)People like that tend to have unnatural attachments to "their" weapons and it really gets to them when you take them away (even if they are easily replaced)
zappaman
(20,606 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Did he run out to the tip of a fishing rod?
Were his movements sped up from real life?
Did he try to hide behind a black towel?
Was Sammo Hung directing his movements?
Was he wearing a wire... which was suspended from a crane?
Was he seeking revenge for the death of a father/brother/friend/uncle after being taken under the wing of a social outcast and undergoing at least five minutes of montage training?
Okay, I guess I'm done here. Someone else can take over for a while.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Lost a pricey Leatherman the same way...