Wednesday, July 20, 2011

This is why I don't fly anymore


His ordeal began last Friday when airport security in Freeport, Bahamas found a .32-caliber bullet inside his fanny pack. He was charged with possessing ammunition and sent to a jail in Nassau. Lapp says he thinks he left the bullet in his pack after a hunting trip.
How would you take it if this happened to you while traveling with family on vacation? I'm certainly capable of overlooking a shell casing or bullet in a travel bag. How about you?

All of these so called security measures that have been enacted around the world rely on policy and not thought. One security yahoo with the capability to produce conscious thought would have kept an innocent man out of jail if he or she were only able to act on what they know, and not on what a zero-tolerance policy tells them to.

2 comments:

Broken Andy said...

I suspect the jail time stems from where he is flying from and not the fact that he is flying. But those ammunition laws are just stupid.

Fowl Ideas said...

What if the guy turned out to be McGuyver? He could have turned that one bullet into a device capable of overthrowing a government or something.