The Transportation Security Administration has a “friendly” reminder for travelers: don’t try to board a plane with accessories shaped like weapons as one woman tried to do Sunday in Baltimore.
The woman was stopped at a security checkpoint at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport with a pair of gun-shaped shoes with faux bullets around the sole and a bracelet with faux bullets in her carry-on luggage, reported the Associated Press.
TSA does not allow travelers to bring “replica guns or ammunition” through security, according to the report.
The agency told the passenger she was allowed to put the accessories in her checked baggage, but she ended up leaving them with the TSA to make her flight.
Here’s a picture of the shoes, courtesy of TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein:
Shoes and bracelets that are less than ideal to wear or bring to a @TSA checkpoint. These delayed a traveler at BWI. pic.twitter.com/tZiFkwCBLf
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) February 29, 2016
She also posted some advice:
Friendly reminder from @TSA: Realistic replica firearms and ammunition are not permitted past TSA checkpoints.
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) February 29, 2016
Barstool Palin’s been shopping at Hookers R Us again?
They shoot horses, don’t they?
BTW, has the NRA been pretty quiet lately? Are they keeping their powder dry until the general?
Baltimore-Washington International? Consider my relief that my first two suspects, Houston Intercontinental and DFW, weren’t the site.
This woman should have been put on the permanent NO-FLY list for her fashion sense alone! Gawd, they are hideous! (And this from a straight guy who pretty much wears jeans and work shirts all the time.)