Flyer Arrested for Rubber Band Ball...

[sfwriter]

The post is here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=618629

"The cop started in on me, and I finally said, "look, I'll give you the ball. I just want to get on my flight." The TSA guy ignored me, and kept asking me what was in the center of the ball. I kept telling him it was nothing but rubber bands. The TSA took it away again and x-rayed it again and said there was something metallic in the center. I kept denying it and denying any wrong doing.

The cop then switched tactics and asked, "are you smuggling drugs?" I told him that was "outrageous" and produced my SIDA badge and my airline ID. I asked him if his question was serious. He started asking why I didn't have any checked luggage to which I replied, "Dude, I load bags all day. I know better than to check them." He again accused me of "smuggling something."

This had gone on for about 1/2 an hour and I knew the flight was leaving soon. I repeated, "you can have the rubber band ball. I just need to get home, so I need to get going." The LEO said, "you're not going anywhere." At that point, I knew I was in trouble.

He pulled out his pocket-sized flashlight and said, "take off your sunglasses, I think you're on drugs." I said, "what?!" He replied, "I am ordering you to take off your sunglasses." So I did. He shined the light in my eyes, and said, "Yep, you're on something. Anything you need to tell me?" I was incredulous. I said, "Look! I showed you my SIDA badge, I'm in the random drug test pool, I get tested regularly, I don't use drugs. Now or ever." He said, "I don't believe you. Turn around and put your right hand behind your back." He snapped on handcuffs and said I was under arrest for suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance.

The "TSA boss" practically wet his pants as he excitedly thanked the LEO for "taking care of me." I was led outside, put in the back seat and taken to jail. I've never been arrested before (in the US) so I didn't know what to expect."


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I'm sick of this BS myself.


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[Trillo]

1. Sounds to me like he was on adrenaline at that point. n/t

[AIJ Alom]

2. Good grief. Thanks for finding this. Incredible.

Is this what we have come to ? I understand that law enforcement has to be more vigilant, but this, this is just plain absurd.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I was talking to the young woman at the check out stand the other day and

made some comment about "the police state," and she told me she was flying back from Costa Rica from a college sponcered foreign study biology internship at a biology lab.

It so happened it was fairly soon after 9/11 when she came through US customs. They checked her for chemicals residue on her hands/clothes and she tested positve.

She's been on the no fly list ever since.

It is a police state now.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. no fly list,

According to a Korean Airlines flight attendant, one of their pilots is on the no-fly list and is now stuck as a trainer at their simulator center because of it. Apprently the United States won't even tell Korea who they think this gentleman is or what that person did to get on the list. Even a letter from the head of Korean military intelligence hand delivered to the US Ambasador that detailed the guys life from about the age of sixteen was ignored.

[John Q. Citizen]

11. The no fly list is so un-American it's unbelievable. I mean if you can't fly

because you are a terrorist or a true threat, shouldn't you be arrested, or what's the point?

No criteria how one gets on it or how someone gets off it? Bull shit.

[longship]

4. Disgusting.

:kick:

[upi402]

6. They are assholes at the airport now, totally unnecessary too

This is wrong and there HAS to be accountability, even for cops and Republicans in America.
This is unAmerican.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Okay, I have to say this...

"Hey y'all prepare yourself, for the.... Rubber Band ... Man! No time to lose control, for the Rubber Band ....Man!"

Rubber Band Man by the Spinners

:)

[upi402]

8. bump bump bump ba-dump

[hootinholler]

9. Hand me down my walkin stick...

[upi402]

10. got-ta gitdown, got-ta gitdown

again,

bump bump bump badump

always with the bump bump bump badump, i know

[Catherine Vincent]

12. Well I guess I had some of the lyrics wrong. :)

Lyrics for: The Rubberband Man

Hand me down my walkin' cane
Hand me down my hat
Hurry now and don't be late
'Cause we ain't got time to chat
You and me we're goin' out
To catch the latest sound
Guranteed to blow your mind
So high you won't come down

Hey, y'all prepare yourself
For the Rubberband man
You never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the Rubberband starts to jam

Oh, Lord, this dude is outta sight
Everything he does
Seems to come out right

Once I went to hear them play
At a club outside of town
I was so surprised, I was hypnotized
By the sound these cats put down

When I saw this short fat guy
Stretch a band between his toes
Hey, I laughed so hard
'Cause the band got down
When he finally reached his nose

Hey, y'all prepare yourself
For the Rubberband man
You never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the Rubberband starts to jam

Got that rubberband
Up on his toes
And then he wriggled it up
All around his nose

(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Guaranteed to blow your mind
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Playin' all that music, yet keepin' time
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
Where in the world did he learn that, oh, Lord, huh
(Doo doo doo doo doo)
Lord, help him get away

Hey, y'all prepare yourself
For the Rubberband man
You never heard a sound
Like the Rubberband man
You're bound to lose control
When the Rubberband starts to jam
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Rubberband man, Rubberband man
How much of this stuff do he think we can stand
So much rhythm, grace and debonair from one man, Lord
And then he had nerve to wiggle his left toe
To his knee, got the feelin' in his head, y'all
Ah, come on, baby

Hey, y'all prepare yourself
For the Rubberband man
You never heard a sound
Like the rubberband man
(He's a Rubberband Man and he likes to Jam)
You're bound to lose control
When the Rubberband starts to jam

Rubberband man starts to jam
Movin' up and down across the land
Got people all in his ways
Everything about him seems out of place

Just a movin', just a movin'
Just a move-move-movin'
Just a Rubberband, Rubberband man
Just a movin', just a movin'
Just a move-move-movin'
Just a Rubberband
Rubberband man
Get down
Oh, get down lover
Ah-ha!

[upi402]

13. yep, looks like we went astray

shame on us:party: -now what was the topic anyway?

[AspenRose]

14. WOW, I feel SO much safer now!

:sarcasm: