Re: Terror threat level: brown.

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Puns are banned!


Posted by: Glenn | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:19 PM
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Wire and a magnet... are we talking about a vibrating butt plug here?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:20 PM
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Anyone else find it a little weird that when he's taken into custody, his luggage gets on the plane, when somehow they manage to detain my luggage nine times out of ten?


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:26 PM
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Laugh it up, honkys. I'm sure there's a perfectly nutritious explanation.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:28 PM
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You saw he was Iraqi, right, ogged?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:28 PM
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Hemorrhoid treatment?


Posted by: Yuri Guri | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:29 PM
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I've always wondered what a mexican">http://www.bash.org/?1578">mexican in black lipstick would look like.


Posted by: Glenn | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:33 PM
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Fuck, I knew this day would come. It's Colonoscopy Airways for the lot of us now.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:34 PM
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An immigration violation! For putting something in your butt! This is not justice.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:37 PM
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I wonder if "but Sir Stephen *ordered* me to wear this in my butt" is a valid excuse.


Posted by: Anderson | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:39 PM
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Move zig. For great justice.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:41 PM
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Maybe he was trying to get past the "nothing over three ounces" ban on carryon liquids?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:41 PM
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But, but magnets and wires are not liquid -- how would this plan help?


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:43 PM
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Maybe the magnets and wires were a retrieval device of some sort.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:44 PM
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Maybe he was trying to get past the "nothing over three ounces" ban on carryon liquids?

You know, I've thought about that. One easy way to get liquids on board is in your bladder. Just insert a deflated balloon and fill it with some nasty mixture through a catheter; once in flight put in the final ingredient (which you hopefully need less than 3oz of) ... bam! Suicide bladder bomb. You could even claim that the catheter is necessary medical equipment for a bladder problem, and so on.

For people truly dedicated to wooing the 72 virgins this shouldn't be all that hard.


Posted by: Yuri Guri | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:56 PM
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A few more cases like this and maybe Americans will start to laugh a bit more about the terrorism thing. Apart from the ones being cavity-searched, I mean.

Ignoring #1 above, it is obvious he should become known as the Poo Bomber.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 7:57 PM
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He's not a bomber, he's an ass-ass-in.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 03- 7-07 10:10 PM
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More details!

"Al-Maliki told investigators the objects have therapeutic properties, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire; and some kind of round, polished stone. 'I believe we're about as confused as you until we finish the investigation,' said Ethel McGuire, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 8-07 3:09 PM
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Ew.

Any relationship to the current Iraqi PM?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 03- 8-07 3:15 PM
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OK, I am betting that even with the infinite variety of human kinks, there is no one in this world who gets off on having his homemade rectal therapy device publicly evaluated by an FBI agent named Ethel.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 03- 8-07 3:20 PM
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20: Oh, ye of little faith. I'll bet there are people into that searching for their brethren on the internet right now.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 03- 8-07 3:41 PM
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