How to make someone’s life a living hell
As they deal with the TSA.
Take a piece of lead sheeting, the kind that is used to line gutters &etc. Available at most hardware stores.
Lay your favorite pistol on the lead sheeting (automatics usually work best)
Trace outline of pistol onto sheet.
Cut sheet with shears to the shape of the pistol
Place thin lead silhouette in the cover of a book or between pages of a report in their laptop case
Wait for them to try to get through TSA.
Not that I would do this to someone. Nuh uh.
A pain in the ass, but the payoff would be priceless.
I almost blew a friggin gasket a couple years back at ‘enhanced security’ at the Calgary International Airport.
The security personnel were all brown people with turbans. No chit. I watched them going through a woman’s baggage and pulling the underwear out and laughing and yapping at each other in a foreign language. The woman was so embarrassed she was almost in tears. This was maybe a year after 911.
I try not to be a bigot. I really do. But I stood shoulder to shoulder with a Calgarian in a Stetson that told that rag head he would be spitting out teeth if he didn’t cut the crap and do his job. A couple people applauded.
Why do we bother with the charade? Nobody is fooled by it. I can think of several people that would benefit from your joke, Og.
Reminds me of going through customs, going from Yugoslavia to Romania in the summer of 1983. The Romanian border guards went through all the ladies undies, giggling their asses off, with dudes lugging AKs backing them up. Nice to see things have improved.
Good idea, Og, but I first saw it in a Trevanian novel. Shibumi, I think.
OK, maybe it was The Eiger Sanction. My mistake.
hey, i never read either book, nor did I ever say I invented the idea.
Didn’t mean to imply that. It’s a good idea, to my evil little mind.