Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Fear Itself

How appropriate...

Transportation Security Administration at Tampa International Airport finds box cutter in back pack...

Benjamin Baines Jr. pleaded guilty to the concealed weapons charge. He seems to think that he was charged not because of what was found in his possession, but because, drum roll please... "he was black and carrying the Koran," That damn profiling thing again! Well not really...

[...] The X-ray image of a box cutter inside Benjamin Baines Jr.'s backpack caught the attention of federal officers Sunday morning at Tampa International Airport. [...]

[...] But it was the packaging that really jolted them: a hollowed-out book that hid the razor-sharp tool. Also inside the backpack: a Koran, a Holy Bible and rap music lyrics referencing police, drugs and guns. [...]

The title of the book that the box cutter was concealed in.... Fear Itself

Obviously this is all just a big misunderstanding...

2 comments:

ABFreedom said...

ROFLMAO... he thought the xray machine wouldn't see that... LOL...LOL.... You just gotta go to the Edm International sometime, and go to where you can watch the planes take off. One side overlooks security, and you can watch some of the stuff going through the machines, and see all the stuff on the monitors... The guy is obviously lives up to how stupid some criminals are...

Tim said...

No no no AB... It was to hide his money and drugs. He simply forgot that there was a "box cutter" in there... Sheesh... can't you read!...LOL