Jet says, "There will never be another lead sentence so beautiful."

[evilbeej]

Jet says, "CLEVELAND (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech."

Pete Wisdom says "Connie, do I strike you as a threat to national security? :P"
Constantine says "...no..."
Constantine says "Why, did someone accuse you of being one?"
Pete Wisdom says "I was chosen by the computer at the airport - and not everyone was, and I asked why and they said they didn't know, the computer did it - to get patted down and magnet-searched and have my bag rifled through."
Constantine says "..."
Pete Wisdom says "http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5291334.htm gives a possible explanation."
Constantine vaguely remembers reading somewhere that people are randomly being selected for stuff like that at airports. Which strikes me as amazingly stupid, but.
Supernova says "I could make a sardonic remark about the land of the free here if it'll make anybody happy.:/"

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[droa.livejournal.com]

I was "randomly selected" when I flew to Jersey last February. Oddly enough, so was my father. I also had a pair of cuticle scissors that'd been left in my bag from a previous trip taken away, and got groped by fecking security.

Which I still consider to be less amusing than the time the hooks on my aunt's bra set off an airport metal detector. The really good things never happen to me. ::forlorn sigh::

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[evilbeej]

She has a terrorist bra! ...but wait, she's not Irish. Is she? THEY have terrorist bras.