Once again, a “dangerous” grandmother and her terrorist team of granddaughters, along with Minnie Mouse, have been stopped from raising havoc on a U.S. airlines. My wife and I recently returned from a spectacular four-day vacation at Disneyland with our two oldest granddaughters. Before we started home, we purchased several Disney souvenirs, including a small 1 ounce Minnie Mouse mini snow globe that our 5-year-old granddaughter had picked out for her little baby sister.
Unfortunately, the TSA at the John Wayne airport in Orange County, in their infinite wisdom, deemed the small snow globe was a weapon of mass destruction. They are also, obviously, suspicious of caucasian grandmothers with 5- and 10-year-old granddaughters. Not only did they scan my wife and pat down the hair bun on the top of her head, but they confiscated Minnie Mouse.
Grandmas with granddaughters coming home from Anaheim are very dangerous people. This is the same TSA with the enhanced training, the increased wages and the added benefits that have never stopped or apprehended a terrorist since being taken over by the federal government in 2001.
Needless to say our little granddaughter was devastated and cried all the way home on the plane. The TSA officials are not allowed to collect them and donate them to a worthy charity, but I guess they are required to throw them in the garbage in front of the children that they take them from.
What a class act the TSA is. Now I see what our taxes are going for and how the TSA’s extended training has paid off. It is no wonder our country is trillions of dollars in debt with such wasteful and ridiculous programs.
Doug Yarwood
Camano Island
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