Woman facing charge after TSA egg incident

[Zephie]

PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (UPI) -- A Kansas woman said she is scheduled for a court date in Philadelphia after she opened a confetti-filled plastic egg over an airport security agent's head.

Val Baul, a former radio DJ and traveling clown known locally in Roeland Park, Kan., as the "Bunny Lady," said a Transportation Security Administration agent confronted her about her confetti-filled eggs after she had already been through security at Philadelphia International Airport during Valentine's Day weekend in February, WDAF-TV, Kansas City, Mo., reported Thursday.

"She wasn't investigating my eggs, I had already been through the X-ray machine (with no problems)," said Baul, who commonly dresses in a pink bunny suit and performs for special events. "She said, 'What are those?' and I said, 'Well, they're eggs filled with confetti.'"

Baul said she proved her point by opening one of the eggs over the agent's head, causing confetti to rain down on the other woman. Baul said she "didn't think anything of it," but the TSA agent took her to the airport's jail, where she was held for 3 hours.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/04/08/Woman-facing-charge-after-TSA-egg-incident/UPI-68331302246000/#ixzz1J5KirQh4

[PeaceNikki]

1. Good, all clowns should be locked up!

I kid, I kid.

(sorta :scared:)

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Bite your tongue.

[Zephie]

5. Hey, I don't disagree

I'm crazy coulrophobic. :scared:

(Edit: sorry Stinky! Clowns are scary!)

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Do you know how "Stinky The Clown" came to be?

It actually had noting to do with clowns.

[Zephie]

8. I don't actually...

Like I said, I'm pretty much extremely coulrophobic. A clown tried to do a trick where they lit a lightblub on my hand as a child, but whatever the mechanism was that lit the bulb must have shorted out and it shocked me... I've never really recovered (how silly is that?!). Since then I really try to avoid anything about clowns or clown related. What's the story? =o

This story was just too ridiculous not to share though.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. I'm really sorry about your bad experience.

I don't think its silly. I actually do understand.

My wife is a member here who predates me by maybe 6 months or so. Her name is Sparkly (Sparkly Fairy Princess, which is an inside joke of ours.) My original DU name was "Husb2Sparkly".

Husb2Sparkly was quickly shortened by everyone to H2S. H2S is also the chemical symbol for hydrogen sulfide, which is the odor in, among lots of other stinky stuff, farts. One DU poster noticed that everytime she showed a post of mine to her (chemical engineer) husband, he'd see my shortened name and laugh, calling me a clown.

Some time later, DU had a member name change amnesty. I wanted to do a fart name, but that wouldn't have been acceptable at the time, so other names were considered. I'm a person who laughs a lot and so is Sparkly. While she's at least slightly more highbrow than I, my humor is very childish. Sparkly came up with the name "Stinky The Clown". I wanted to go with "Fartso." Her idea was more socially acceptable and thus was Stinky The Clown born.

I used to use this image as my avatar. I chose it because it seemed ironic, but not scary (yes, I agree that some clowns can be scary). An angry clown but one who is still an obvious cartoon. Remember, all this was in 2004, the bush era, when being angry was stylish.

[murielm99]

13. I remember your original DU name.

It is nice to hear the reason for the update. I like both of your names.

[joshcryer]

19. Same here! That's a nice story, I'm glad we learned of it.

I knew about the name change people underwent after the primaries but I didn't keep up. Good to know, good to know. :hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Lesson: Do Not Fuck With Humorless Amerikan Gestapo.

I despise the TSA. I despise george cheney and dick bush for creating it.

[ixion]

4. Defund the TSA

Seriously.

[LiberalFighter]

14. +666,666,666,666,666,666,666

[LisaL]

18. Yea, those would be the budgets cut I could agree with.

[Terra Alta]

7. I guess some folks have NO sense of humor.

I mean, really. :eyes:

[Drew Richards]

9. Silly Wabbit

You disrespected my authorita!

[david13]

10. Il Pagliacci. dc

[Dawson Leery]

11. Defund the TSA as well as the DHS.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. East Coast.

I absolutely HATE flying into or out of the East Coast.

[jberryhill]

22. I've only ever been body scanned at LAX and SFO

In the last couple of months, I've flown out of PHL to SFO, LAX, and MIA.

I've never been scanned at PHL or MIA, but have been scanned every time at SFO and LAX, and that includes connecting through Miami to Colombia and back.

You want to see some humorless airport security, then I highly recommend Colombia. They'll pull you out for a full-on abdominal x-ray if they feel like it (as two on my flight were).

[lostnfound]

23. Chicago does it all the time. Nt

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Never had a problem at O'Hare.

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

24. I used to always get selected for "special, random" searches on the east coast, even before 9-11.

Only happen on the East Coast. JFK, Newark... I always figured it's because I'm a MAN with LONG HAIR and I look like a HIPPIE so some eager security chappie figured I had to have some WEED in my BAG! :D

Sorry, no luck, gents. :cry:

Maybe I'm extrapolating from limited experience, but coincidentally enough, the East Coast is the only place in the country where total strangers have also felt compelled to come up to me and comment on the apparently odd fact that, again, I'm a MAN with LONG HAIR who looks like a HIPPIE and so wow I probably have some good WEED on me. :eyes:

I dunno, maybe I've lived on the West Coast too long. Can't deal with that constant everybody-in-everybody-else's-face-all-the-time.

[jberryhill]

27. I am also a MAN with LONG HAIR, though

But I agree that people on the east coast tend to be weirder about the fact that hair grows. It's more a function of what I'm wearing, though.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. It's weird.

Like I said, I've been on the West Coast for a very long time, so I sort of forget that anyone even bats an eye.

I probably dress like less of a slob than I did 10 years ago, though, so maybe now, between that and the gray hair, I would be seen as more 'respectable'. :shrug:

[jberryhill]

32. Big difference

I figure middle aged guys with some grey and decent clothes are assumed to be wealthy. It all depends on where you fall between Jerry Garcia and Richard Branson.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. If I have to pick

I'll go with Jerry Garcia.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. She's wearing a Dark Side of the Moon T-shirt.

I'm liking her more and more.

[SheilaT]

17. Did she really have to open the

egg over the TSA agent's head? Really, that shows a distinct lack of common sense.

[murielm99]

20. Well, she is a clown. Clowns don't have common sense.

I think it is funny. I wouldn't do it, but it is funny.

[jberryhill]

21. Yeah, I have people dump confetti on my head while I'm working all the time

It's so hilarious that I've started doing it to store clerks, firefighters, janitors... I mean who'd be bothered by having a stranger dump stuff on their head?

[demwing]

29. Maybe not, but is it good cause for getting arrested?

Sorry..."Detained"???

[jberryhill]

33. Touching someone with an object they don't want touching them is battery /nt

[Modern_Matthew]

26. 1000x less harmless than genitalia groping. nt

[Keith Bee]

30. People afraid of clowns are WIMPS!

Jesus H. Christ I'm sick of adults professing this fauxbia!

[Zephie]

31. Hey, buddy, screw you.

Why the heck would you feel the need to post that? Some of us are seriously afraid of clowns and that's absolutely not for you to pass judgment on. Do you go around telling arachnophobia people that they're wimps? What about people with agoraphobia? These are actual problems, and not even what the OP was about.

Try to have some compassion, jeeze.

[jberryhill]

34. Insensitive people make my hair turn green