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TSA Seizes Disney World Toys

8-year-old Jeremiah Ramirez had just lost his father to cancer, so his mom took him to Disney World to raise his spirits and take his mind of the tragedy. While there he picked up a Pirates of the Caribbean toy gun and sword, and was hoping to bring them back to North Carolina, that's when the TSA stepped in. When he tried to go through security at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport his toys were confiscated. "It's very upsetting because at one point I had told one of the employees, 'You know this is not a real weapon,' and he said 'Yes, I understand that, it doesn't matter,'" said mom Maria Edge. I may not be clear on all the reasons the terrorists hate us, but stuff like this is why I do.

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  1. So they won by BluePeppers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We've got to hand it to the terrorists... They're good at what they do. They set out to affect our lives in a detrimental way, and we let them do it, doing their work for them most of the time, with "anti-terror" measures and "national security" legislation.

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    1. Re:So they won by almondo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think the fact that so many road warriors have retired from travel is good evidence that they won. Personally, I quit taking road warrior jobs not out of fear of terrorists, but simply because I am tired of pathetic TSA bullshit making me throw away my shampoo and mouthwash every week.

      The TSA theatrical security is far more pathetic than security through obscurity ever was.

      The real terrorists are the TSA themselves.

  2. Re:Toy Weapons by Kingrames · · Score: 4, Funny

    Precisely.
    Think of the children.

    Crying themselves to sleep.
    MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!

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  3. Re:Least Disney has a heart by RockDoctor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Least Disney has a heart

    And sent the poor kid some replacements.

    That's a marketing department, not a heart. One is a fist-sized mass of complexly arranged muscles and nerves ; the other is a large building filled with overpaid shit-for-brains with the communal ethics of a pile of fetid dingos kidneys.

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