And yet you can bring a banana on a plane. What if I held a banana against the flight attendants back? Everything can be dangerous. Pretty soon they'll outlaw fingers. I might pretend my hand is a gun and take over the drink cart.
You have the right to remain cholesterol free!! Put down that .....hmmmmm ehmmmm cholesterol firing device!
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Err, well people will see its a banana?And yet you can bring a banana on a plane. What if I held a banana against the flight attendants back? Everything can be dangerous. Pretty soon they'll outlaw fingers. I might pretend my hand is a gun and take over the drink cart.
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Are you a gun owner? either way the comments are coming over as dumb.
In this instance the 'case' looks like a concealed weapon - walking into an Airport with a concealed weapon you have to concede is dumb and has the potential with heightened extremist alerts to be an issue.
A hair dryer isn't a gun or gun shaped, however hide it under your coat and draw it out in front of an armed police officer might get you shot.
Overreacting police, are you serious?The conclusion: the real threat is not the gun-shaped phone cases or the hair dryer, but the overreacting polices. In another words, the fault is not at the guy who carry these stuff, but the person in charge of the psychological training of the polices.
LOL. Anybody remember "The Return of the Pink Panther" where Chief Inspector Dreyfus does something like this? He's got a gun, and a cigarette lighter shaped like a gun. Naturally he gets them confused while trying to light up a cancer stick and shoots his nose off.Just wait until some guy mistakes his real gun for his iPhone, tries to answer a call, and blows his ear off!
The case is a bad idea in an airport. You cannot walk around an airport talking about plane crashes. You should not go to schools with bomb shaped clocks. Common sense. But outside of airports this is a harmless case of no danger to anyone and no threat except for people with irrational fears.I'm interested to see whether anyone will defend the use of this case or not - I can't imagine any scenario when using that case, and especially at an airport, is ok
Well in an ideal world the police do follow that instruction in the UK. If we ignore the countless stories of US police shooting people dead before asking questions you might want to remind yourself of Jean Charles de Menezes, a man who was shot dead on the Tube. It happens sadly, not often but it's not worth putting yourself at risk.I did not know cops anywhere had moved to shoot on sight? What's the split second decisions? Do I ask them about the gun or shoot them? If you live in a country where shoot them even occurs to the cops in a non violent typical environment you need to move because your cops and society have devolved to insanity. Even if it was a REAL gun their is no split decision to be made. My friends in the FBI (shame be upon them all) don't get shot when they carry because a cop needs to make a "split second decision". The cops just ask them if they notice it, or they explain it.
I'm interested to see whether anyone will defend the use of this case or not - I can't imagine any scenario when using that case, and especially at an airport, is ok
This is illegal in the UK.
This guy wins the thread.I know what you're thinking, did I make five calls or six? - David Brent
Unfortunately, people still think its funny to joke about carrying bombs in their luggage when going through security. And then whine like a spoilt child when the face the consequences of that.
Problem is when the police see something that looks that much like a gun, chances are it's a gun and not some idiot carrying a gun-shaped iPhone case in the <UK slang> bloody </UK slang> airport. Now their lives and the passengers' lives are on the line. And that guy could easily, you know, just NOT have a case that's obviously meant to fool authorities into thinking he has a gun. I don't know about fining the guy, but they had good reason to keep him off the flight.Sooo it's not okay to have a phone case that's shaped like a gun but it's okay to have a gun shaped like a phone?
What if I eat my kid nibbles his pop tart into a gun? Would they arrest him?
Insane. It's not the gun that is evil folks. Very rarely does a gun go off by itself and kill anyone. It's 99.999% the other way around.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/news/gun-smartphone-ideal-conceal-carry/
Good to know. I guess all these pictures of police officers at London's airport are all photoshopped then:In UK they don't carry guns.
This is illegal in the UK.
In UK they don't carry guns.
And yet you can bring a banana on a plane. What if I held a banana against the flight attendants back? Everything can be dangerous. Pretty soon they'll outlaw fingers. I might pretend my hand is a gun and take over the drink cart.
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Congratulations on going to absurd lengths to try to paint this as anything other than an insanely stupid move by this idiot with the gun-shaped phone case. It makes you look like you'll say anything to support your side.Next 50% of people traveling will be arrested because their hair dryer looks like a gun..... and the other 50% will be like : "It's dumb to bring hair dryer when traveling, you must be a moron to do that!"
Quite a few of our police forces carry guns, especially at airports. London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham etc all have a certain amount of armed police on the beat.Good to know. I guess all these pictures of police officers at London's airport are all photoshopped then:
https://www.google.com/search?q=london+airport+police+armed&tbm=isch
Seems someone must really like photoshopping submachine guns into the hands of London police officersat the airport. Really good work too, they look so real.
Yeah, sure, it's the police's fault. What would you suggest, wait until someone gets gunned down by a bad guy before deciding that "yes, maybe that is a real gun that I spotted"? Are you volunteering to be that sacrificial person who gets shot, just so the police can be really sure? Police are humans too. No amount of training will cause you to get that split second decision right in every possible circumstance. It can only make you somewhat better prepared. But since you're volunteering to be the "canary in the coal mine" for police shootings, who the bad guys can shoot so the police can be 100% sure that those are bad guys before reacting, well, you can die knowing you've made the world a safer place for idiots who want to carry fake guns in airports.The conclusion: the real threat is not the gun-shaped phone cases or the hair dryer, but the overreacting polices. In another words, the fault is not at the guy who carry these stuff, but the person in charge of the psychological training of the polices.
Given what happens lately I know that checks are NOT done correctly and that is the problem, NOT a plastic cover.
Huh. This will come as a considerable surprise to the person whose comment I was replying to, who said, flat out, "In UK they don't carry guns."Quite a few of our police forces carry guns, especially at airports. London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham etc all have a certain amount of armed police on the beat.