Girls are stoopid and have cooties.

Heh – that sucked you in here, didn’t it?

Sent to me by Claire, who’s taking a week’s vaca from blogging:

Attendant’s gun accidentally discharged at Philadelphia airport

Those dumb old flight attendants, always shooting their guns off in crowded terminals. Why, there oughta be a law.

Oh, wait. There is.

The 26-year-old attendant was stopped at the Philadelphia’s Terminal C checkpoints, where Transportation Security Administration spotted the weapon in her carry-on handbag as it went though screening, TSA spokesman Jim Fotenos tells The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The attendant — who reportedly has worked at Republic for more than 5 years — is licensed to carry a firearm, but investigators say she claims to have forgotten it was in her bag.

Yeah, well, girls are stoopid. We’ve established that. They should give me all their guns. I’m a guy*.

“per protocol, police were called,…”

Because since the lady could prove she was carrying the gun legally, there thus being no crime to investigate, naturally you call a cop and make a big to-do, right?

But never mind. The Trained Professional arrives. We’re saved. Then…

…and when a responding officer was attempting to render the firearm safe, she accidentally fired it once.

Yeah.

There is one sweet little surprise in this brief article, though. Check out the very last paragraph…

As for the officer who reportedly discharged the gun by accident, police spokesman Evers tells the Inquirer: “She will go back to training for handling weapons. She will be off the streets for a period of time.”

Which is a VERY strange thing for a “police spokesman” to say. Normally they would announce that all was done according to strict department policy, which in this case clearly called for ricocheting bullets as anyone can plainly see. Then they’d publicly give the heroic Trained Professional a medal for valor. Then they might take her out behind the station and quietly drown her. But WE wouldn’t hear anything about it.

This scene must have been REALLY public.

Heh.


* Full Disclosure: I actually did forget I was carrying a gun into a security line one time. Awkward. It’s happened with knives, too.

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9 Responses to Girls are stoopid and have cooties.

  1. Claire says:

    Well, that was quick. I just knew you’d be able to do something wicked with that item.

    Hm, hm … what shall I say next time some boy cop mishandles a firearm …

  2. Claire says:

    BTW, what happened to you and the gun you almost carried through “security”?

  3. Joel says:

    Oh, this was pre-TSA, in Amarillo. It’s just about 30 years ago, now that I think about it. I just said oops, went back to the counter, and stuck it in my suitcase unloaded.

    But then when I tried to change planes in Dallas, the law changed. Now that wasn’t adequate because my suitcase wasn’t a hardside and all guns had to be transported in hardside cases.

    Then – when I figured I was going to miss my plane, they offered to rent me a hardshell gun case. Hey, it’s Texas. This sort of thing used to happen a lot in Texas, nobody got upset about guns in airports until the Feds came along.

  4. MamaLiberty says:

    The feds and fuzz aren’t the only ones who make life with guns much more dangerous than it ever needs to be. I went to a gun show about a year ago, openly carrying as always. I’d been to that show many times carrying. This time the idiot at the cash box demanded that I draw the gun and unload it so he could put one of the little plastic ties in the barrel…

    I asked him if he was insane or what! The safest place for that gun was exactly where it was, in the holster, and that I had no intention of drawing it unless attacked – most certainly was not going to draw and fool with it in a large room full of people!

    He insisted… I went back home. Never have gone back to that show. I could go CC, but why would I want to encourage such dumb asses with my business?

  5. Joel says:

    I’ve gotta visit your neck of the woods sometime, ML. I don’t remember ever OCing into a gun show where they didn’t want the gun unloaded and zip-tied. All those nimrods, all that crowding – it goes against the grain to say it, but I can kinda see their point.

  6. Bear says:

    Dang. The unloading requirement I’ve seen often enough (apparently at the venue-owner or insurance company’s insistence, since the door checkers never forced the issue; didn’t ask about CC, or look real close for even an OC sidearm). But zip-ties?

    Not bloody likely.

  7. I’ve been to shows recently in the Tucson area where there didn’t appear to be any requirement to disable open carry weapons. I was CC and was looking for signage indicating loaded was verboten – didn’t see any…

    First time I took my mom to a gun show i really drilled the notion of not covering anyone with the muzzle into her – didn’t want her to be unmannerly. Within a few minutes of being in the door she remarked that no one else seemed to be paying attention to that protocol. I replied that even if it seemed everyone else was doing it – she shouldn’t – that she’d get respect from the people that mattered and would stand less chance of being mistaken for a rube.

    I’ve run into LEO that didn’t know how to unload a single-action revolver. Seen ’em wave a big ole’ hogleg all over the side of the road – including towards the heavy traffic on said road. Five minutes earlier the maligned tool had been snuggled in my gear bag – hadn’t menaced anyone in weeks til someone just had to get their booger hooks on it – so’s they could get home safe at the end of the shift. Thankfully there was no discharge – but after watching them for a couple seconds I was ready to hit the deck if I saw that hammer come back!

  8. MamaLiberty says:

    “All those nimrods, all that crowding – it goes against the grain to say it, but I can kinda see their point.”

    I think you missed the point… 🙂 All the guns on the tables, or just being carried around over one’s shoulder and handed to random might be buyers, really do need the ties and all the safety measures possible. And yes, I’m often alarmed at some of the casual gun handling even here… but it’s minimal.

    The gun in my holster, on the other hand, isn’t going anywhere, isn’t endangering anyone at all. If some goofus starts to get frisky with a gun, ANY gun, he needs to be dealt with promptly by any adult in the vicinity. Disarming everyone indiscriminately is certainly not the answer… and I’m sure you would agree with that. The mere presence of loaded guns is not the problem…

    And IF one was comfortable with being required to carry an unloaded gun (I’m NOT) the ideal would be to have a “safe” table outside set up to accomplish that – not a demand to draw and unload inside, surrounded by thousands of people. With kids and dogs running around, it’s a nightmare I don’t want to contemplate.

    But yeah, I think you’d be very comfortable at most of the shows here. We have not had an ND or real problem ever, that I know of.

To the stake with the heretic!