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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Grandma with bread knife fined and placed on terrorist watch list
Cecilia Beaman, a 57-year-old grandma and school principal, was caught trying to sneak a bread knife on an plane. She said it was an accident (she claims she thought she put the sandwich-preparing knife in her checked luggage), but that's too bad -- no sympathy for granny or her lame excuses. She knows the USA is at Threat Level Orange, and she should have been extra diligent. Now she's been hit with a $500 fine and placement on a terrorist watch-list. I feel safer!
LinkOn the trip home, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport found it deep in the outside pocket of a carry-on cooler. Beaman apologized and told them it was a mistake.
"You've committed a felony," Beaman says a security screener announced. "And you're considered a terrorist."
Beaman says she was told her name would go on a terrorist watch-list and that she would have to pay a $500 fine.
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