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Hijacking attempt thwarted by TSA


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Cecilia Beaman is a 57-year-old grandmother, a middle school principal and part-time terrorist. She was busted by the TSA for attempting to sneak a 5 1/2 inch bread knife with a rounded tip and a serrated blade onto an airplane.

Luckily, the TSA foiled Granny's hijacking attempt.

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On the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler. Beaman apologized and told them it was a mistake.

"You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist."

Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine.

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She says screeners refused to give her paperwork or documentation of her violation, documentation of the pending fine, or a copy of the photograph of the knife.

"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'."


That's right, Granny. You're busted, You have no rights. That's what you get for trying to hijack a plane with a bread knife. By the way, using the 37 school children you were "escorting" as a cover for your terrorist ways just isn't right.

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As covered by the Consumerist

I feel safer already.

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I can bet money those security people did that on purpose just to prove a point against the security plans. THEY probably didnt like it for their own reasons, and so they went through this whole thing just to make the headlines. To that extent, the whole thing could have been a fraud. Who the hell would honestly say "You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist." Even if it looked like a terrorist, which clearly it couldn't have. Sounds like a ploy.

In fact, Im almost positive that is the case. An anti-bush propaganda attack.

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