Airport stops woman with gun-shaped heels
A pair of gun-shaped stiletto heels at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, in Maryland, as seen in this Feb. 28 photo. A woman had the shoes in her carry-on luggage as she tried to move through security. (Transportation Security Administration via AP)
LINTHICUM, Md. » 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.
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Really fancy shoes. What kind of girl wears this kind of foot decoration? Teenager? Black girl gangster? White streetwalker? What color nail polish would look best to compliment this artwork? Nylon stockings? Too bad I wasn’t with her. I would love to display it on my shelf as a conversation piece or donate them to the local Academy of Arts for everyone to ogle over. Collector’s item for foot fetish connosieurs. Bet you someone wearing a TSA uniform highjacked them.
was she a prostitute?
OMG, it was a set.
shoes and bracelets.
now that’s something you don’t see everyday.
perhaps she is a dancer.
As with all things to do with the TSA, you get the quality of personnel and judgment you’re willing to pay for.
Rules are rules, people don’t like change it. Simple unless your a liberal.
Actually those shoes are very creative. I think these are nicer than the ones that have live goldfish in the heels.
What will they come up with next?