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Thank God for the brave St. Louis TSA agent that stopped a sock monkey from getting a gun on a airplane. May has a small business selling unique sock monkey dolls. She says she and her husband were on their way from St. Louis to Sea-Tac and she had a couple of monkeys and sewing supplies with her in a carry-on bag.
His pistol was in there, she says of the sock monkey Rooster Monkburn, a take-off on John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn from the film True Grit.
May and her husband were going through the screening process when she noticed that one of her bags was missing.
And the (TSA agent) held it up and said whose is this? she said. I realized oh, my God this is my bag.
May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and found the two-inch long pistol.
She said this is a gun, said May. I said no, its not a gun its a prop for my monkey.
She said If I held it up to your neck, you wouldnt know if it was real or not, and I said really? said May.
The TSA agent told May she would have to confiscate the tiny gun and was supposed to call the police.
I said well go ahead, said May. And I said really? Youre kidding me right, and she said no it looks like a gun.
She took my monkeys gun, said May, who has retained her sense of humor.
Rooster Monkburn has been disarmed so Im sure everyone on the plane was safe, she said. I understand she was doing her job but at some point doesnt common sense prevail?
What a silly question.
Of course it doesnt.
Poster Comment:
The TSA and Common Sense are never seen in the same building.