TSA Screeners Play Fashion Police, Force Woman to Miss Flight Over Aesthetically Displeasing Purse
2nd December 2011
Apparently the lady had a design of a gun (not a gun, a design of a gun) on her handbag.
Even after they figured out the gun was a fake, TSA officials still wouldn’t let her take the purse into the cabin. They also took so long that Gibbs missed her flight.
Fly the friendly skies. I like to think that Muslim terrorists are even partly as inconvenienced by the Gestapo TSA as ordinary citizens are, but I’m not going to bet on it.