MintyBoost + TSA = bad

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Natch had a bad day at JFK when his MintyBoost looked too much like an IED (The full story is here)

Just goes to show you, even Rocket Scientists have trouble at the security line…


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4 Comments

  1. It is truly a sign that the end is near when you have such ignorant fools in positions that give them way too much power, and that the politicians that created the whole mess remain in public office.

  2. Well, as we all know, Kip Hawley is an idiot.

    -Joey

  3. Yeah, this is why I didn’t take mine on an airplane. The wife had the presence of mind to suggest that since people think beverages can be made into explosives, maybe my pockets shouldn’t be loaded with electronics I’d been soldering up myself.

  4. That’ll teach him to make ugly electronics!

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