Pistol Pendant Causes Airport Holdup
Brett Popplewell, Toronto Star
May 30, 2008 04:30 AM
Woman prohibited from taking Colt .45 trinket aboard plane because of its symbolic importance
The Colt .45 hung cold around her neck, like a pendant.
Because it was a pendant.
On Monday, Marnina Norys, a 39-year-old PhD student of social political thought at York University, was forced to remove a piece of silver jewellery cast in the shape of an antique pistol by airport security in Kelowna, B.C., who feared the trinket posed a security risk to the passengers on her WestJet flight.
Approaching the security desk, Norys says she was stunned when guards labelled the 5-centimetre pendant, with no bullets or moving parts, a replica firearm.
“When the woman pointed at the pendant I had no idea what she was talking about,” said Norys, who was informed that replica firearms are banned from planes.
“They made me feel ashamed, as if I should have known that it was wrong to wear this type of jewellery.” Flustered, Norys stuffed the pendant into her carry-on, but was surprised when the guards opened her bag and analyzed the trinket as if it were an actual gun.
“I moved from shamed to irritated very quickly, because (the pendant) couldn’t do any damage to anybody,” she said.
Despite the trinket’s innocence, an unnamed security guard told Norys she’d have to check her jewellery in storage under the plane.
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May 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Idiots! And they wonder why the airlines are failing?
May 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
fucking crazy canadians
May 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Canadians are not to blame for this makalat, we are only following the lead of our moronic American neighbours.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
How are Canadians not responsible for their own actions?
May 30th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Canadians have always been weak willed sheep. Americans should set a better example for Canadians to blindly follow.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Please, by all means – do. We’d love to see you stand up to your criminal government, maybe a few of us would wake up here as well.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
What is wrong with people?! I have just finished reading an article about a guy flying out of Heathrow who had to remove his t-shirt because it had a image of a transformer who has a gun for an arm and now gun shaped pendants in Canada … Canada of all places!
I think I might go back to bed before I read an article about someone who can’t fly in my home country, Australia, because they are sporting a gun tattoo or other such nonsense.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:13 am
“How are Canadians not responsible for their own actions?”
To take it further, how is anyone not responsible for their own actions?
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably
sensible and reasonable. But taken as a member of
a crowd — he at once becomes a blockhead” –
Schiller
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