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Showing Original Post only (View all)Texas Man Caught With Missile Launcher In Checked Baggage At BWI Airport [View all]
Source: WJZ 13 CBS
BALTIMORE (WJZ) A man was caught with a missile launcher in his checked bag at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport early Monday morning.
Transportation Security Administration officers detected the launcher and immediately told airport police, who tracked down the traveler and detained him for questioning.
The man, who lives in Jacksonville, Texas, told officials he was an active military personnel traveling home from Kuwait and he wanted to keep the missile launcher as a souvenir.
Military weapons are not permitted in checked or carry-on bags, TSA sid.
Read more: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/07/29/texas-man-missile-launcher-bwi-tsa/#.XT8XMFZ7-4g.twitter
Sounds like he took Trump too literally.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jul 2019
OP
Which denies neither the particulars nor the premise of the article. nt, pt II
LanternWaste
Jul 2019
#14
I believe this is much closer to the truth than the post it was replying to
VMA131Marine
Jul 2019
#46
I have over 4,200 hours of combined Call of Duty and Battlefield 4 play...
Sapient Donkey
Jul 2019
#60
When I was in Basic Training, and learning to use the LAW, Light Anti-Tank weapon,
Aristus
Jul 2019
#24
Brown people get caught without any weapons at all, just brown skin is enough. nt
IronLionZion
Jul 2019
#38
He didn't even miss his flight, which tells you how serious the TSA was about this.
Calista241
Jul 2019
#67