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

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

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    52·
    3 days ago

    A reminder to put the gun in the suitcase is just genius…

    But what boggles my mind more is how she even got the gun through security. TSA did an absolutely shoddy job.

    When asked where she planned to store the gun while she was in Australia, she indicated under a vehicle’s passenger seat, the court was told.

    This woman is amazing.

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
      28·
      3 days ago

      how she even got the gun through security.

      You can quite legally transport a firearm in your checked baggage, because it’s not accessible to you during the flight.

      But yes, the TSA is a joke, and red teams have roughly a 90% success rate at getting firearms and simulated bombs through “secure” checkpoints. It’s security theater; it catches people that aren’t really trying very hard–or truly forgot that they weren’t supposed to carry a firearm in their carry-on bag–and it makes the majority of people think that flying is completely safe. Not very long after 11 September, I was flying to New York City with a friend that accidentally had a rather large switchblade in her carry-on, at a time when switchblades were illegal throughout the US. Not only did she carry it to NYC, she was able to get it back to Chicago, all without the TSA noticing.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        161·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • figjamEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

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

          Yeah, feels that way here as well.

        • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
          8·
          3 days ago

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

    • ramirezmike@programming.dev
      14·
      3 days ago

      Goodson told police she was actually “scared” of shooting the gun and hoped simply producing it would be enough to deter potential threats. “If that didn’t do it I would probably just pistol whip,” Goodson was quoted as having said.

      😂