Illegal jewelry

<a href="http://www.blogto.com/upload/2008/05/20080528_snakesonaplane.jpg"><img src="http://www.blogto.com/upload/2008/05/20080528_snakesonaplane.jpg" height="100" align="right"></a>Common sense be damned. This woman had her necklace taken by airport security because it looked like a gun (click the picture for a better view).

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Kelowna Airport in British Columbia has bad ass security. They know how to shake you down, and nothing gets past them. And if you don't want a hassle and a half at their security checkpoints, one thing is clear: don't try to bring a gun onto the plane - even if it's under two inches in length, has no moving parts, and is hanging from a necklace around your neck.

On Monday, Marnina Norys, a Toronto resident and PhD student studying Social Political Thought, was put through the bureaucratic and culture-of-fear rigmarole while trying to board a place in Kelowna - all because she wore a necklace with a pendant in the shape of a gun (the classic Colt45, and the actual pendant depicted in the above photo).

Hijacking a plane using a tattoo of a gun or the latest issue of Guns &amp; Ammo magazine are just as likely scenarios. (<a href="http://bit.ly/8galYu">link</a>)
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The article finishes this way: <i>"How do you know it wasn't a real gun?" asked Guy, a security agent with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, who also declined to provide his last name. "Who knows if there is a gun that small that can shoot bullets? You don't know that. They followed the rules." This silliness serves as just one more reminder - we've lost our ability to embrace logic, and the terrorists have won.</i>

That sounds like a convenient excuse, but think about this: who makes the rules that these mindless droids are required to follow?
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