Officials: Air passenger caught with dagger, throwing stars

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. ...is he trying to be a ninja?

Those are TWO shuriken (throwing stars), three kunai (throwing knives) and a dagger. Some people don't do their terms correct.

[left-of-center2012]

2. He should hook up with that pastor

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]

7. Blame God rather than take personal responsibility.

OOPS, for sure.

[NWCorona]

3. Everything pictured looks like garbage

[scscholar]

4. Sad to see the TSA take a bribe

It had to be that since there's no way they didn't see it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. "didn't see" what? This is a story about the TSA stopping a man

with those items in his luggage - ie something they saw, and acted on.

[ToxMarz]

5. Hopefully they never return them to him

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]

6. Well, at least he didn't have THE FATAL FLYING GUILLOTINE!!!

[sofa king]

8. Did his speech fail to match his lip movements?

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]

9. Meh...

Lost a pricey Leatherman the same way...