‘Ninja’-Style Daggers Found in a Hollowed-Out Book at Reagan Int’l Airport
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Billy Hallowell
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This photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration shows two throwing daggers hidden in a hollowed-out book found by TSA officers at a checkpoint at Reagan-Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Transportation Security Administration)
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says officers found two throwing daggers hidden in a hollowed-out book at a checkpoint at Reagan-Washington National Airport.
A TSA spokesman says a passenger was stopped Monday when officers found the knives in the person’s carry-on bag. The daggers measured just over a half-foot long and were hidden in the hard-cover book.
“This is an example of why our officers need to carefully inspect everyday items,” said TSA spokesman Kawika Riley.
NBC Washington reports:
The TSA recognizes that most passengers who bring these items into the checkpoint don’t do purposely with malicious intent. However, because common and seemingly innocent items like books can be used to hide dangerous weapons, it’s important that TSA officers are trained to look beyond the ordinary to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all employees and travelers.
The passenger was flying to Chicago and surrendered the knives and book.
The TSA has the authority to fine passengers who bring deadly weapons into the airport checkpoint. It was not known if this was done in this case.
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Comments (70)
DeeCee
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:40amProbably just another made up story to further justify removing the rights of U.S. citizenry…
Report Post »“…we’re here to protect you.”
TheCalvinistPastor
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:44am@Decee, I agree with you buddy. I would never put it past the Govt to plant a story like this in order to infuse another cash flow into the cause of security, yet taking away our liberty at the same time
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:00pmLet me guess it was found on a 88 year old lady.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:20pmWho would attempt to smuggle this way?
Report Post »debased
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:54pmI agree too. They have video cameras in airport terminals. They would have who placed it there. Can’t believe anything they tell you anymore.
Report Post »Ramcharger
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:10amHey the page says “Ninja Equipment” – not like they were hiding it very well.
Report Post »Ramcharger
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:09amthose are not knives – they are a matching set of letter openers!
Report Post »SON OF JEFFERSON
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:55amMy wife was stopped at san fran airport with a letter opener 4″ blade and was later told that since it had not been sharpened that she could keep it on board with her,you could easily kill or maim with the point being so sharp
Report Post »johnnyvaughn
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:07pmI flew to Wisconsin from Southern CA with an elbow piece of pipe and a Phillips screwdriver and they let it go through. Granted I was using the piece of pipe for display and the screwdriver was to open a crate at the trade show I was going to, but a screw driver? The TSA was impressed by the skull sticker I had on my laptop and said nothing about the pipe or screwdriver. I could have taken some of the plane apart.
Report Post »swiftouch
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:14pmI forgot about my leatherman micra in my bag a couple of times when I flew. It has a 2.5 inc blade (about the size of a small pair of nail clippers. And it folds out to a pair of scissors. It’s beyond !@#$ing ridiculous this is considered dangerous. The blade doesn’t lock so if I ever tried to stab someone with it, I’d probably cut off a couple of fingers in the process. I stopped flying all together because of airport security. I’d much rather charter a hot air balloon than ever fly again. I’m sure I would get their faster.
Report Post »Ramcharger
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:08amIf the TSA would stop stealing things from “Checked” baggage there would be no reason to sneak them in our carry on bags! It is legal to check these items – but with the TSA “Stealing” our belongings who would want to check their valuables!
Report Post »Ramcharger
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:06amThe knives probably belonged to a TSA employee!
Report Post »shagstar
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 2:19pmit’s a prop from that soho warehouse in ny!!
Report Post »rogue operator
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:55amOh great, now no books on planes. http://tinyurl.com/7pzbbvy
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:07amThat is not a “book”, it is clearly designed as the box for the pair of throwing knives, thus the title on the page that reads “Ninja Equipment”. I’d also bet my salary that this was NOT intended to be used as a terrorist weapon, but was probably a gift received while traveling and wanted to smuggle it home.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:48amHollowed out book hidding two 6-inch blade knives. What could this mean?
Wait a minute. It’s just Achmed and these are his samples for the Islamic knife convention in Nogales. No need to arrest him. We promise to mail them overnight to you, Achmed.
Report Post »jim
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:27amWow, TSA finally found something that was obviously detectable by the x-ray machines, and metal detectors. What next? They’ll find a gun in a holster?
Report Post »666Sucks
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:25amRelax folks, obviously he was wearing a Supernowl Ring!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:35amThe liberals will now use this horrible crisis to ban Books !!!
Report Post »superbyelich
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:10am“A TSA spokesman says a passenger was stopped Monday when officers found the knives in the person’s carry-on bag. The daggers measured just over a HALF-FOOT long and were hidden in the hard-cover book.”
I love news lingo, we’ll call it HALF-FOOT rather than SIX INCHES just to make it sound more outrageous than it really is. Six inches is big, but a half-foot… oh MY GOSH that’s huge!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:55amTSA show
Report Post »Daddy Hawg
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:49amThe TSA will arrest and fine a person for being disruptive but does nothing to a person trying to sneak daggers onto a flight. Sounds like a plant so they can say they are actually doing something worthwhile. I am throwing the BS flag on this one! Too little hype and glitter to be a real find!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:22amYou are probably right.
Report Post »IAMABLAZE
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:38amThis has got to be a planted story. Who would bring a hollowed out book through security with knives in them. People know that the metal detectors would pick them right up in the scanners. I am suspicious that the government is planting this crap to justify making more regulations on the American people.
Yes. Why wasn’t the perpetrator detained and questioned then?
This seems like a set up to me.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:14am@IAMABLAZE The only set up was probably it was Muslims carrying…Something happened a couple of years ago after Obama got in…I noticed it even on Fox News…when there was a hijacking type plane scare..they must have been blocked from telling the culture of the people..the government must be controlling it for what else….control.. Now as for what regulations need to be incurred? People with licenses to carry..should be allowed to carry…and the airlines should have plain clothes air marshals flying on every flight..
Report Post »Banter
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:25amRemember, this is the same government agency that treats your water bottle like a bomb, yet lets you throw it away in a garbage can in the middle of hundreds of passengers.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:40am@Banter
Report Post »I never thought of that, if it wasnt so scarey it d be hilariuos !!!
Rashomon
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:59amTsa – “Why is your water bottle smoking?”
passenger- “It just had sex.”
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:23amTSA still sucks, they‘re wholly incapable of stopping anything by checking granny’s diaper up close and personal, and generally incapable of keeping anyone safe.
ABOLISH THE TSA – RON PAUL 2012.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:34amDid you see where they now want to hire more agent to “console” those who get searched by TSA agents. What a joke.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:13amI’m not opposed to airport security at all. But I am opposed to it being run by the federal government. This is yet another domestic issue where I agree with Ron Paul.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 1:37pmIt’s not just a Paul view, it should be common sense across the board. I just keep bringing up “The Big Dig” in Boston as a comparison. Theres a fine bit of government / union work pushed by the murdering Ted Kennedy.
Report Post »notreally
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:23amThey didn’t give his name, therefore we know that is was Abdul or Ali or Mohamed or Assam or…
Likewise with Black crimes: If it’s murder, rape, flash mobs or setting old women on fire the demcrat MSM and the perpetrator is Black, they’ll omit race identity. But, thanks to videos on the New Media, the demcrat PC hustlers who control the MSM can no longer censor the truth, which is why they’re trying to shut it down:
-11/18/10 Fox News: Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller urges FCC to shut down Fox News.
Report Post »-3/22/11, The Blaze: “They [the Tea Partyers) don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution, but we’ll give them to them anyway”? Democrat Senator Lautenberg.
-1/7/11 CBS News: President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.
12/7/11 AP: A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist; although media experts said Wednesday that the ruling would have little effect on the definition of journalism, it casts a shadow on those who work in nontraditional media. “Nontraditional media” — meaning, The Blaze, Breitbart, talk radio — all conservative news sources.
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ollie42
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:11amFrom what I gather from the story, the passenger just gave up the knives & book and went on their merry way. If this is true the TSA is a bigger bunch of idiots than I even dreamed. Why would anyone have weapons hidden in a book unless they planned to use them? Why was this person not arrested? This is a setup or else we are in bigger trouble than I thought.
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:17amThe TSA has the authority to fine passengers who bring deadly weapons into the airport checkpoint.
Report Post »This is why, do you really think they give a hoot about safety?
ollie42
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:32am@Commonsense: I carry my concealed weapon into a bar & have a beer I will be arrested immediately. I try to carry a concealed weapon onto an aircraft & the TSA fines me, slaps me on the butt & I walk away. Make sense? Of course they don’t give a damn about security, it’s all about show & money.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:20amThere are a lot of hunters in my family, myself included. We enjoy hunting, target practice, etc. To make a long story short, my father used a duffle bag to travel once that we had also used, on occasion, to carry ammunition back and forth to the range. Unknown to him, there was still a 44 magnum cartridge in one of the pockets. Fortunately, no one made a big deal out of it. He surrendered the cartridge and continued on.
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:05amOf course no name of passenger, explanation of why the daggers in the book and no indication of an arrest. He just surrendered the knives and the book?! Really? A Tea Party guy gets ARRESTED at the airport for trying to check in per regulations an unloaded, properly packed firearm and this guy tries to bring knives INSIDE the cabin and he just surrenders them….and the book?
There is a LOT more to this story.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:49am“The TSA recognizes that most passengers who bring these items into the checkpoint don’t do purposely with malicious intent. However, because common and seemingly innocent items like books can be used to hide dangerous weapons, it’s important that TSA officers are trained to look beyond the ordinary to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all employees and travelers.”
Basically what they’re trying to say here is, “Grandma, be prepared for further body cavity searches because we know that’s not really an adult diaper, a mastectomy prosthesis, a chemo port, and a hip replacement you’re wearing. See, we found things in a book, so….. And don’t you infants and 4-year-old little kids think you’re getting away scott free, either…..”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:47amThe old hallowed book routine? That was old when Brett Maverick was riding the range.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:01ammorning gonzo hope you have a great day, i would love to be fishing,but the ball and chain has my honey dew list in hand, okay, wow, my wonderful wife of 25 years has my things foe me to do,man that was close,she was right behind me, may not ever get to go fishing again,is she reads this, ha,ha,
Report Post »i just wonder if tsa would have look if the title would have been, 101 ways to blow things up, or how to be a communist sympathizer
Onodacops
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:04amgood one !
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:47amSo what exactly is a “hallowed out” book. I have of “hallowed” ground, and I have heard of a “hollowed” out book, but this new.
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:48amHa!!! Good catch Blaze! You fixed it!!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:38am.
Report Post »I like the Title of the Chapter 1 Ninja Equipment……….I bet that was there first clue…….
jharper
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:00amBrilliant Spanky! LOL! We know that TSA is as brilliant as the dolts that would try to bring daggers on a plane.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:24amDid this really happen, or was it the TSA own set up in trying to show that they do something
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:31amProbably a setup. I’m sure they just want another reason for unnecessary searches. Next they’ll ban all books on a plane. Except for the Koran, it might offend the wrong person if they banned those.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:32amYou beat me to the puunch!! My thoughts exactly, maybe we have a contract renegotiation going on so the TSA people can say “look how well our rapists oops I mean agents work !”
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:23amAlways on the alert TSA agents said they first became suspicious when the green man’s name did not exactly match the name on his drivers license. Speaking on behalf of the other Teenage Mutant Turtles, Leonardo said that Michelangelo has been undergoing some personal problems as of late and has begun to withdraw more and more into his shell.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:56amhey careful now, peta well be all over you for turtle profiling
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:17amIt only cost 30 billion dollars to stop two $10 Chinese knives ….well worth it
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:33amThat kind of talkk and a cup of coffee can make you a TSA supervisor at no time making $65 an hour with a 25 day vacation a year! :)
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:47am30 days of vacation…….and I will take the job
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:55amREPUBLICORP, Exactly. Finally they caught something more than nail clippers and granny’s colostomy bag!
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