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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jul 29, 2019, 12:21 PM Jul 2019

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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It is interesting living in Texas at times Gothmog Jul 2019 #1
Agree! Lonestarblue Jul 2019 #6
I have a similar problem... Wuddles440 Jul 2019 #51
Was this another "empty tube" ? n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #2
Yes, that's all it was. There are pictures at the link. jmowreader Jul 2019 #18
Yes MosheFeingold Jul 2019 #59
Let's ask the science officer. sl8 Jul 2019 #64
Confucius say - I'm confused...OMG.... asiliveandbreathe Jul 2019 #3
It was an empty launch tube - it represented no danger to anyone. nt hack89 Jul 2019 #8
But it's military. Igel Jul 2019 #11
Yep customerserviceguy Jul 2019 #35
So, not only is guy amazingly stupid sdfernando Jul 2019 #4
Not really hack89 Jul 2019 #9
It's court-martial, and the empty launch tube had no military value Brother Buzz Jul 2019 #12
Thanks for the education on this sdfernando Jul 2019 #19
TSA rules are pretty black and white hack89 Jul 2019 #23
What hack89 said Brother Buzz Jul 2019 #34
Texas man is trying to compete with Florida man IronLionZion Jul 2019 #5
It's an empty launch tube. nt hack89 Jul 2019 #7
Which denies neither the particulars nor the premise of the article. nt, pt II LanternWaste Jul 2019 #14
The point being it represented no threat to anyone. hack89 Jul 2019 #15
Actually, it is for him angrychair Jul 2019 #20
That is not true at all hack89 Jul 2019 #21
I believe this is much closer to the truth than the post it was replying to VMA131Marine Jul 2019 #46
Seems that the real point must be crime of theft. procon Jul 2019 #39
You usually ask permission hack89 Jul 2019 #40
If that is a military regulation then its unlikely procon Jul 2019 #42
Then you need to to me show the actual regulation. hack89 Jul 2019 #43
Start with that fraud, waste and abuse caveate procon Jul 2019 #49
That's not a regulation - that's a Gish gallop hack89 Jul 2019 #55
I don't think it's even a launch tube VMA131Marine Jul 2019 #45
I'm just glad "some son of a bitch" didn't die. Onyrleft Jul 2019 #10
Sounds like grand theft to me. procon Jul 2019 #13
It is a single use, disposable launch tube hack89 Jul 2019 #16
The military doesn't track disposable sarisataka Jul 2019 #17
If they are supposed to be turned in for disposal procon Jul 2019 #41
Sometimes there is salvage value sarisataka Jul 2019 #44
They're fiberglass; it's cheaper to just melt down more sand Recursion Jul 2019 #61
Why are people acting like this is no big deal?!? angrychair Jul 2019 #22
Because you are wrong? hack89 Jul 2019 #25
That just isnt true angrychair Jul 2019 #27
I am a retired military officer hack89 Jul 2019 #29
In my case angrychair Jul 2019 #31
I would imagine they have the stricter standards hack89 Jul 2019 #32
My buddy told me angrychair Jul 2019 #54
I have over 4,200 hours of combined Call of Duty and Battlefield 4 play... Sapient Donkey Jul 2019 #60
Because we are ex-military Abnredleg Jul 2019 #28
See my post #27 angrychair Jul 2019 #30
The plural of anecdote is NOT data! VMA131Marine Jul 2019 #48
The plural of anecdote is not data. angrychair Jul 2019 #53
When I was in Basic Training, and learning to use the LAW, Light Anti-Tank weapon, Aristus Jul 2019 #24
That is a Griffen launch tube hack89 Jul 2019 #26
Thank you customerserviceguy Jul 2019 #36
Thanks for the info hack. MicaelS Jul 2019 #63
He should be treated exactly the same as a brown person IronLionZion Jul 2019 #33
How do you know he was not a "brown person"? nt hack89 Jul 2019 #37
Brown people get caught without any weapons at all, just brown skin is enough. nt IronLionZion Jul 2019 #38
Not to worry, he will use it to hunt deer. pazzyanne Jul 2019 #47
The only way he could sarisataka Jul 2019 #50
Thank you nocoincidences Jul 2019 #52
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jul 2019 #56
Open the link in the OP. There are pictures. hack89 Jul 2019 #57
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jul 2019 #58
Reminds me of that Bruce Cockburn song. MicaelS Jul 2019 #62
You beat me to it. area51 Jul 2019 #65
It's not like you can't buy these at military surplus stores already NickB79 Jul 2019 #66
He didn't even miss his flight, which tells you how serious the TSA was about this. Calista241 Jul 2019 #67
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