Stun Gun cell phone left on aircraft
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Stun Gun cell phone left on aircraft
Authorities are investigating how a stun gun managed to make it through security and onto a flight that landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, Fox 5 reported Sunday.
The FBI is investigating how the stun gun got aboard a JetBlue flight from Boson on Friday, a federal law enforcement source said.
According to sources, a striker 1800 stun gun was found by a cleaning crew inside the back pocket of a seat on Jet Blue flight 1179 after the passengers had disembarked, Fox 5 said.
The FBI is investigating how the stun gun got aboard a JetBlue flight from Boson on Friday, a federal law enforcement source said.
According to sources, a striker 1800 stun gun was found by a cleaning crew inside the back pocket of a seat on Jet Blue flight 1179 after the passengers had disembarked, Fox 5 said.
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If you had succeeded in getting one onto an airplane to begin with, why would you then put it in the seat back pocket? And then, how in the world could you foget it there? 
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why would you then put it in the seat back pocket?
on that note, riding ferry boats to work each day, if someone leaves a bag or backpack unattended, and the crew finds it, they stop the boat, get the Coast Guard to search the vessel, then the bomb squad to remove it...after being late to work, or worse 3 hours late getting home, we passengers started walking the boat, and if we found unattended stuff, we would sit there and wait...and explain to the owner how happy we were, or toss it over the side...
Perhaps if the TSA spent more time looking at the people they should do, instead of kids, retirees, cancer victims, etc., they might have spotted it?
Thought: this was a probe, by someone, who explored the art of the possible in leaving a tool for a follow on passenger to use.
It also might be that one of the flight attendants liked to engage in exotic sexual practices that includes stun guns, and for whatever reason left it in a seat pouch for later retrieval ... I realize that is an immense stretch, but weirder things have happened ...
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A similar event ocurred on BA many moons ago when sniffer dogs were being checked out on a parked aircraft. The police missed that device afer the exercise and it was found by a pax airborne on the next flight. I believe a BA manager lost his job over this.
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It also might be that one of the flight attendants liked to engage in exotic sexual practices that includes stun guns
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Judging by the looks of some of them, they woud need that stun gun to get any chance of a date.
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Three possibilities spring to mind -
1) This was left where it was to prove a point, and the person responsible is looking forward to watching his creation unfold on the news/media, with a satisfied smirk on his/her face
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2) Somebody genuinely wanted to transport this device from A to B, but got cold feet at the other end, not wanting to risk a pat down after disembarking.
or
3) They wished to use it for not so innocent purposes, but again, lost their bottle mid-flight and stuffed the thing in the first available place that wasn't on their person or in their hand luggage.
Air marshal, anyone?
1) This was left where it was to prove a point, and the person responsible is looking forward to watching his creation unfold on the news/media, with a satisfied smirk on his/her face
or
2) Somebody genuinely wanted to transport this device from A to B, but got cold feet at the other end, not wanting to risk a pat down after disembarking.
or
3) They wished to use it for not so innocent purposes, but again, lost their bottle mid-flight and stuffed the thing in the first available place that wasn't on their person or in their hand luggage.
Air marshal, anyone?
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investigating how the stun gun got aboard
how a stun gun managed to make it through security
They never ever spotted the Leatherman tool that lived in my flight bag until 2 years ago and that looks like nothing else except a Leatherman. It must have passed through a couple of thousand x ray machines since 11/9. That's not a very impressive strike rate, is it?
What do people expect? Effective security? Get real.
Its not as if a stun gun is even a particularly useful means of hijacking an aircraft. A fist is just as effective.
Woah! Woah! Lets just not go there or we'll all be amputated before we fly...
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Just an anecdote; I flew an aircraft into a (French) airport and while in town bought a set of 6 steak knives. Put the bag on the conveyor going back to my aircraft and the officer turned towards me as my false knee pinged the machine. Behind her I could see the 6 knives filling the screen of the scanner. She then just lifted my bag of knives from the belt without turning around and handed it to me. I walked out onto the apron carrying my precious cargo of knives.