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uppityperson

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19. Why the hell should anyone have to explain why they bring in any cookware?Or anything else like that

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2013, 09:17 PM

May 2013

I mean, seriously. If someone were going to fly into the us and make a bomb, just buy a cheap one here. Good grief. Next thing I'll be arrested for exporting those skanky dried cheese packs from cheap mac-n-cheese that my nieces miss so much. Yes, France has GREAT cheese, but not the same.

Why the hell should this be an issue? Yes, missing passport pages is odd and needs checking into, but a pressure cooker? It doesn't matter why he is bringing it in.

Or are they going to start confiscating ALL pressure cookers, limiting or requiring registration when you buy one? Idiots.

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Nephew: Man mistakenly jailed for pressure cooker [View all] Judi Lynn May 2013 OP

mmm hmmmm n/t cosmicone May 2013 #1

Are you seriously suggesting they were smuggling in a terrorist pressure cooker? Comrade Grumpy May 2013 #4

What is suspicious is cosmicone May 2013 #6

Maybe it didn't work to the specs they wanted for their particular dish. Ash_F May 2013 #13

Maybe but .... cosmicone May 2013 #15

Black Helicopters much? Daniel537 May 2013 #16

Wow, they should call you the pressure cooker inquisitor. /nt Ash_F May 2013 #17

Toaster bombs are next... L0oniX May 2013 #2

Wedge a couple of Pop Tarts in there, and you have a pretty powerful weapon! arcane1 May 2013 #7

Those things are deadly without the toaster. n/t L0oniX May 2013 #9

Let's not forget the most dangerous of all kitchen incendiary devices azurnoir May 2013 #8

Welcome to the United States of Over-re-actia! Nope. No raclal/religious profiling here folks! marble falls May 2013 #3

Pressure cookers are just the beginning. We are all in danger as long as backpacks go unregulated. jtuck004 May 2013 #5

Does underwear come with bomb sensors yet? L0oniX May 2013 #10

Underwear with a sniffer...beware of false alarms. I can see D. Issa going batshit over those. n/t jtuck004 May 2013 #18

Huh? Underwear for bats??? n/t L0oniX May 2013 #21

nmissing page in his passport - wonder where that showed he had been. RILib May 2013 #11

pressure cookers don't kill people... mahannah May 2013 #12

Another one? a2liberal May 2013 #14

Why the hell should anyone have to explain why they bring in any cookware?Or anything else like that uppityperson May 2013 #19

Don't give them any ideas. NutmegYankee May 2013 #20

Could be a price difference or "things from home are better" thing. uppityperson May 2013 #22