Teacher arrested at LAX

Things in official new releases can often times become a tiny bit exaggerated. Years ago the San Diego police raided the wrong house, on the wrong street. They put the elderly homeowners through a terrifying ordeal that included ramming their front door in, flash bang grenade, yelling and swearing at them to get face down on the floor, along with completely ransacking their home before their error came to light.

In their news release about the incident, the San Diego police department said that they had found pornography in the old mans garage. It later turned out to be a single copy of Playboy magazine that was in a cardboard box that contained some of their sons old possessions.

-John
 
True, but sometimes, where there is smoke, there is fire (pun intended).
Harris was arrested Oct. 5 during a stopover in Los Angeles on his trip from Japan to Boston. He was wearing the bulletproof vest under a trench coat along with fire-resistant pants and kneepads.
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Does anyone here think it's OK to put a pyrotechnic device in the baggage compartment of an airliner? Or am I the only one who remembers Valujet 592? I think arresting him sounds just fine, along with criminal charges for reckless endangerment and a few other felonies.
 
I agree, he should have been arrested, however, don't get all caught up in the hyperbole as the TSA builds it's case against him, and his own lawyer trying to exonerate him. The truth is somewhere in between.

-John
 
If you want to let this guy go, fine. But don't then be the type of person who gets all bent out of shape when someone shoots up a movie theater, and it's discovered that all the signes were there.
 
Ron Levy said:
Does anyone here think it's OK to put a pyrotechnic device in the baggage compartment of an airliner? Or am I the only one who remembers Valujet 592? I think arresting him sounds just fine, along with criminal charges for reckless endangerment and a few other felonies.
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No, I was just amazed that with everything they had on the guy, the only chargeable offense was the smoke grenade.
 
One of the guys in my platoon thought it would be cool to take about five rounds of chain link 25 mm ammo with him on a flight back home.

Security (not TSA, this was well pre 9/11) found it in baggage X-ray. He was charged with espionage.
 
Sac Arrow said:
One of the guys in my platoon thought it would be cool to take about five rounds of chain link 25 mm ammo with him on a flight back home.

Security (not TSA, this was well pre 9/11) found it in baggage X-ray. He was charged with espionage.
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Charged and....
 
the explosive in his checked bag was stupid - but he himself had no weapons on his person. He had protective clothing on his person - but nothing with which the average person could hijack an airplane except pens, pencils, flat pieces of metal, the metal cord in the suitcase lining, etc etc etc etc.

They have not charged him with attempted air piracy yet - only some BS charge that they can't make stick except the explosive on the aircraft .. . . which would carry a sentence of probation.

The plausible explanation? You ever worn a vest? Its pretty heavy. And when flying internationally you have a weight limit in your checked bag - if you are wearing the heavy items on your person - then they don't count against your weight allowance.

The smart thing here? Screen him good - select him randomly for enhanced screening - then stick a air marshall on his flight t Boston between him and the cockpit - and someone else in coach. You actually want to develop some intel here if he is a whacker. . . .by arresting him he clams up and you get nothing.

TSA is so dumb.
 
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