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Title: Milwaukee man's honey shuts down California airport
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URL Source: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/80736882.html
Published: Jan 6, 2010
Author: Jesse Garza
Post Date: 2010-01-06 19:42:27 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 219
Comments: 15
A suspicious material found inside luggage that prompted the shutdown of a California airport Tuesday morning turned out to be five soft-drink bottles filled with honey, authorities said. A passenger's suitcase tested positive for TNT at Bakersfield's Meadows Field during a routine swabbing of the bag's exterior, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said. When TSA officials opened the bag, they found bottles filled with an amber liquid, he said. "Why in this day and age would someone take a chance carrying honey in Gatorade bottles?" Youngblood asked. "That itself is an alarm. It's hard to understand." Investigators said the bag's owner, Francisco Ramirez, 31, is a gardener from Milwaukee who has been cooperating with authorities. He flew to Bakersfield Dec. 23 to spend Christmas with his sister and was returning Tuesday when the alarm sounded. When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital. All flights into and out of Meadows Field were canceled for much of Tuesday as authorities searched the terminal for other potential explosives. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office bomb squad was expected to perform further tests on the honey to determine why at least two false positives were recorded for both TNT and the organic explosive acetone peroxide, or TATP. Bakersfield is about 110 miles north of Los Angeles. Investigators want to know whether any chemical Ramirez uses in his gardening work could have left traces of potential explosives. They will also run tests on the honey to see if the smoke beekeepers use to subdue the insects could have triggered the false positive test. Ramirez was not arrested Tuesday. Authorities initially questioned his immigration status, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Tuesday afternoon that Ramirez is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. Also Tuesday, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was partially evacuated for about an hour after a bomb-sniffing dog identified a bag on a luggage carousel as suspicious. The bag was later determined to be harmless. Spokesman Patrick Hogan of the Metropolitan Airports Commission said the bag was never on a plane and was only a placeholder typically left by airline employees to signal other employees that the airplane is empty. Portions of the baggage and ticketing areas were shut down as well as a road in front of the airport after the bag was found at 2 p.m. All of the gates and baggage claims reopened at 3:20 p.m. Poster Comment:Milwaukee man's honey shuts down California airport
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
series, you can NOT make this SHIT up...
It is hard to understand. Glass is always better than plastic to store honey.
God is always good!
Good Lord, Uhhmerkka is on its knees again over a jar of honey. Brave New judeomerkka. A government of the jews, by the jews, and for the worthless cowardly judenrat, where the citizens are all Palis.
He should be tortured to make sure he's not lying. He kinda looks familiar
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Can't wait for the flight to Mexico in February. I'll pack a hunting knife in case there is a terrorist problem.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Ya seen one fag that likes to dress up like a cop, ya seen 'em all. Google "Village People".
Just buy a machete when you get to MX. Things will go better for the both of you.
Yeah, honey has a pretty strange fragrance if you're used to grape Kool-aid and fried chicken......
_________________________________________________________________________ Testing honey sent them to the hospital? Talk about suggested hysteria.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
The TSA asshats were sniffing HONEY!!!!!!!!! Wait until they're ordered to take a crotch whiff of every camel jockey from the turd world!!!!!
LOL you stuck on the same phrase I did.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
Donny Youngblood should be stripped naked, covered in honey, and tied to a cactus in some dessert in New Mexico.
Really makes ya wonder.....
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Same thing happened here at Fort Wayne International a couple of years ago. A bottle of water sent about a dozen of the big strong goons to the ER. I was surprised none of the dweebs died. Give me a can of spray paint with the label peeled off, and I'll turn the entire south side into a wasteland.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a linear one.
LOL !!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"Why in this day and age would someone take a chance carrying honey in Gatorade bottles?" Youngblood asked. "That itself is an alarm. It's hard to understand."
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Ramirez was not arrested Tuesday. Authorities initially questioned his immigration status, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Tuesday afternoon that Ramirez is a legal permanent resident of the U.S.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#6. To: Flintlock (#4)
(Edited)
He kinda looks familiar
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#7. To: tom007 (#5)
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital.
#10. To: All (#1)
When TSA agents opened one of the bottles and tested the contents, the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital.
#11. To: X-15 (#8)
#12. To: Flintlock (#4)
#13. To: X-15 (#8)
the resulting fumes nauseated them, Youngblood said. Both were treated and released at a local hospital.
#14. To: farmfriend (#9)
Testing honey sent them to the hospital? Talk about suggested hysteria.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
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