Safety over sexy: US airport stops woman with gun-shaped heels

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Safety over sexy: Airport stops woman with gun-shaped heels


Image source: US Transportation Security Administration

LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — At the airport, safety is more important than sexy.

That's what a woman found out at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Officials say she was stopped Sunday at a security checkpoint with a pair of gun-shaped stiletto heels.

TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the stilettos had heels in the shape of handguns and faux bullets around the sole. They were in the woman's carry-on luggage, along with bracelets lined in faux bullets.

The agency prohibits passengers from carrying "replica guns or ammunition" through airport security checkpoints.

Farbstein says the woman was told that she could put the items in her checked luggage. The woman tried to check the items, but ended up leaving them with the TSA in order to catch her flight.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-02

[khwaibah]

[Boon Mee]

America has turned into a Mega-Nanny State.

[X pat]

She must be a Texan.

[JingerBen]

She must be a Texan.

For sure.

Who but a Texan would wear shoes like that?

[USNret]

This wasn't the TSA that stopped her. It was the fashion police.

[sanukjim]

She must be a Texan.

For sure.

Who but a Texan would wear shoes like that?

Your Mxter might when she is walking on Broadway in NYC.

[RKASA]

I think those are the type of heels a woman wears with nothing else on - in which case - who cares where she comes from - where the hell did she go? Does she have the right hat? Rodeo time!

[sgtsabai]

No, not "nanny state", fascist state, big, big difference. Oh yea, fly the "friendly skies" of the US, NOT!