Penis Pump != Bomb

Started by TehBorken, Aug 23 06 10:14

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TehBorken

  [h3]          Penis pump mistaken for bomb at TSA airport screening         [/h3]         I [a href="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,2335.0.html"]warned you people[/a]....but you just wouldn't listen, would you?   [blockquote]Mardin Azad Amin found himself in a tight squeeze last week when security at O'Hare Airport discovered a suspicious-looking object in his luggage. So Amin, 29, handled the delicate situation this way: He told security the object was a bomb, Cook County prosecutors said. The security guard then asked Amin to repeat what he'd said to a supervisor. This time, Amin was chuckling as he spoke, prosecutors said. In fact, Amin was trying to disguise the fact that the black object -- resembling a grenade -- was a component for a penis pump. ...
[img style="width: 147px; height: 196px;" src="http://discoverseattle.net/image/penispump.jpg"]
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NOTE: Apparently in some languages (such as in Portuguese), the word for "bomb" and "pump" is the same, thus perhaps the reason for the story...    
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Sportsdude

Racial Profiling at its finest:

A) He looks like a muslim

B) He's at an airport

C) He's chuckling

D) He's has a black thing that looks like a grenade

  TSA's response:

Yup, he must be a terrorist.
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