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Stupid people...
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:09 pm
by mf_dolphin
Associated Press wrote:Monday, December 22, 2003
MIAMI — A man carrying a razor blade and a hacksaw blade in his shoe was arrested at Miami International Airport (search) as he tried to pass through security checks Monday, Miami-Dade police said.
David McIntyre, 38, from Westchester, Pa., was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
Alarms sounded when McIntyre tried to pass through an airport metal detector at about 6:20 a.m. Airport screeners asked him to remove his shoes and found the blades, officials said.
McIntyre, who was traveling with his wife and children, told authorities he forgot the blades were in his shoe, said Detective Joey Giordano, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade police. It was not known if McIntyre has an attorney.
There was a greater law enforcement presence in the airport given the holiday travel rush, and the Department of Homeland Security's (search) decision to raise the national threat level.
However, officials said they didn't believe this was what led to McIntyre's arrest.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:14 pm
by weatherluvr
How completely stupid can somebody be... especially now that we're at a heightened alert status... he said he forgot they were there???
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:17 pm
by Lindaloo
How can you forget there is a razor blade or a hacksaw blade in your shoe?! What size shoe does he wear a 20 EEE to get a hacksaw blade in his shoe.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:22 pm
by Stephanie
Lindaloo wrote:How can you forget there is a razor blade or a hacksaw blade in your shoe?! What size shoe does he wear a 20 EEE to get a hacksaw blade in his shoe.
LOL!!!!
Maybe it's a fetish...???
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:22 pm
by stormraiser
For real!!! One -- he must have been trying something, even to prove he was a man, because who carries those things on airplanes.
Two -- why would he try to hide them in his shoe
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:28 pm
by Guest
stormraiser wrote:For real!!! One -- he must have been trying something, even to prove he was a man, because who carries those things on airplanes.
Two -- why would he try to hide them in his shoe
Really, ever since the shoe-bomb bozo of two years ago I believe, don't people have to remove their shoes anyway for inspection.
In addition, would that kind of be uncomfortable with a blade in your shoe. "Golly, I feel something in my shoe."
Sheesh!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:30 pm
by Lindaloo
I believe you have to remove your shoes only if the metal detector goes off.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:34 pm
by weatherluvr
Lindaloo wrote:I believe you have to remove your shoes only if the metal detector goes off.
Nope, they did it to my father a few months ago, and nothing set off the detector. It's part of their random searches. And my dad is in his 70's and has trouble walking, so he was rather P.O.'d.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:34 pm
by j
Not true Linda....although the policy is different from airport to airport. In Charlotte we are made to remove shoes..but we can keep our socks on.
Not sure what they did in Atlanta or Boston...I might have just taken mine off anyway
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:36 pm
by Lindaloo
Oh, I had no idea. I do not fly commercial anyway.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:48 pm
by stormraiser
She takes the Private S2K Moderator Jet
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:48 pm
by Josephine96
LOL.. This guy was wacked in his head if he thought he could keep those things in his shoes. Maybe his feet are bigger than Shaq's lol
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:50 pm
by coriolis
Maybe he was going to do his toenails on the plane.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:20 pm
by TexasStooge
coriolis wrote:Maybe he was going to do his toenails on the plane.
LOL!!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:40 pm
by Lindaloo
stormraiser wrote:She takes the Private S2K Moderator Jet
LOL!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:19 pm
by azskyman
My shoes must always come off. I wear Rockports when I travel...no matter what airport I go through, they take one look and tell me to not even try it.
As for this guy being caught with blades in his shoes...hard to believe he could really not know it. I get a grain of sand in my shoe and I have to stop and empty it out!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:00 pm
by vbhoutex
OK!!! Who told about the jet?!?!?!?!
LOLOLOL!!!!!
Yeah, right!!! I forgot I had a blade and a razor hidden in my shoe!!! Can we all say BULLSHIRT real loud together?
BULLSHIRT!!!!!
Thank you!!
At Houston Intercontinental, when I went to pick up my mother saturday they were making everyone take off their shoes. This was before they raised the alert level.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:08 pm
by southerngale
stormraiser wrote:She takes the Private S2K Moderator Jet
Dang! I'm getting slighted again. I haven't been getting my paychecks either. Hmmm
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:42 pm
by Lindaloo
Last I heard they were "in the mail" SG! That was 3 weeks ago. Gives an all new meaning to snail mail huh? LOL!!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 2:36 am
by ColdFront77
Lindaloo wrote:I believe you have to remove your shoes only if the metal detector goes off.
weatherluvr wrote:Nope, they did it to my father a few months ago, and nothing set off the detector. It's part of their random searches. And my dad is in his 70's and has trouble walking, so he was rather P.O.'d.
Last time I was at the airport and last I knew... taking your shoes/sneakers off was on a random basis.
The pain in the neck thing about it is, you aren't sure if they are actually telling you specifically to take them off.