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US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year (www.theguardian.com)

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Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia in 2023 to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not only did she carry it to NYC, she was able to get it back to Chicago, all without the TSA noticing.

🤣 TSA cinema. Incredible. A friend bought a bottle of alcohol in the airport in Europe where it was sealed by the cashier and had a label on it. She stuffed it into her carry-on. When she landed in NYC for a transfer to South America and had to go through security again (because the there's no transfer hall in that international airport for some reason), TSA ripped open the seal to scan the bottle which failed, thus forcing my friend to check in her carry-on luggage and go through security again. A glorious waste of time.

Not only did I not expect the US to have an international airport that doesn't have a transfer hall, I was told the airport looked like it was built in 70s and hadn't seen any major upgrades since. The image of wealth and prosperity in the US portrayed abroad really feels like a sham.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The image of wealth and prosperity in the US portrayed abroad really feels like a sham.

Yeah, feels that way here as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

If it was La Guardia airport, then yeah, built in the 70s and no major upgrades since then is about right.