Two Arrested At Atlanta Airport With Hidden Knives, Razor Blades

[parnass]

Two Arrested At Atlanta Airport With Hidden Knives, Razor Blades. Full story appears here (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14477433/detail.html).

[chmsam]

Hmmm, 5 grand in cash, knives wrapped in tin foil, razor blades hidden inside a toy, and all on an international flight. Bound to be a perfectly logical and innocent explanation about all this.

I do wonder what constitutes the authorities' view a "martial arts style knife," though. The description of one of the knives sounded pretty much like a gimmick knife to me, but those guys sound pretty wacky just from what they had on them.

BTW, IMHO carrying stuff like that transcends any need for profiling. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should be scanned and even somebody's Grannie carrying that should be busted.

[Lunal_Tic]

"Chinese-style fighting knife with blades that opened on both ends." hmm my Oldtimer opens that way. :shrug: As for the "20 small knives wrapped in tin foil", I've bought knives that were in foil like chewing gum wrappers and 5 grand in cash isn't a crime last I checked. I think it would be easy to make more of it that it was especially considering their age 60 and 64. Not exactly the spry strap a bomb to their chest for Allah types but not that bright either. Headlines are always turning less into more I think it might be at least partly the case here.

-LT

[laurent]

Headlines today in France was the story of a couple of dentists which are stuck in India because the husband forgot a deactivated handgun cartridge in his bag - two months ago. They can't live the country to come back in France.

[temujin]

BTW, IMHO carrying stuff like that transcends any need for profiling. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should be scanned and even somebody's Grannie carrying that should be busted.


:iagree: Heh. Razor blades in a battery compartment of a toy car? Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do! Geez, I dunno, try talking your way out of that one. In my jurisdiction, I believe the charge would be "stupid in public".

[Mark123]

These guys should be incarcerated for their pure stupidity. Obviously, this stuff was for resale, not for any terroristic purposes, but it doesn't excuse their ignorance.

I've said it before-after 9/11, you couldn't pull that off again with just small blades: now that people know the deal, everyone on the plane would fight you to the death, even if you had samaurai swords.

[temujin]

These guys should be incarcerated for their pure stupidity. Obviously, this stuff was for resale, ...


:iagree: ...on both counts. If stupidity were a crime, they'd get the chair. And clearly they were smuggling and not terrorists, but I am at a loss to understand the razor blades in the toy car's battery compartment. That is a whole new dimension in idiocy.