At first, I thought that this was pretty funny. You would have to know Gary, to see why it is funny. But he would absolutely not see why taking a grenade onto a plane would be a problem.
A political science professor at Stanford University who attempted to bring a World War II-era grenade Tuesday afternoon through security at Los Angeles International Airport — forcing police to evacuate a portion of the airport — was being questioned by police Tuesday evening, three law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles News Group.
Gary Walter Cox, 58, told authorities the grenade had belonged to his father, who had recently died, the sources said. He thought it was inert but a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said police determined that it might actually have been live.
The grenade was spotted by Transportation Security Administration workers during routine screening, a federal law enforcement official said. The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called out to the airport, and Terminal 1 was evacuated at about 3:45 p.m. Police transported the item and later blew it up, the three sources said. The terminal was reopened about 4:20 p.m.
The reasons it is not funny:
1. He was returning from his dad's funeral. Dad has been sick for a while, dad's an old military man. You can see why Gary wasn't really thinking straight, even by Gary standards.
2. More importantly, they are going to charge him with a felony. And he had to stay in jail overnight.
So, in short, my tendency to see things as ironic and amusing is just wrong here. This is terrible. You'd have to know Gary to understand this, and the judge won't know that. The facts are not good.
A political science professor at Stanford University who attempted to bring a World War II-era grenade Tuesday afternoon through security at Los Angeles International Airport — forcing police to evacuate a portion of the airport — was being questioned by police Tuesday evening, three law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles News Group.
Gary Walter Cox, 58, told authorities the grenade had belonged to his father, who had recently died, the sources said. He thought it was inert but a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said police determined that it might actually have been live.
The grenade was spotted by Transportation Security Administration workers during routine screening, a federal law enforcement official said. The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called out to the airport, and Terminal 1 was evacuated at about 3:45 p.m. Police transported the item and later blew it up, the three sources said. The terminal was reopened about 4:20 p.m.
The reasons it is not funny:
1. He was returning from his dad's funeral. Dad has been sick for a while, dad's an old military man. You can see why Gary wasn't really thinking straight, even by Gary standards.
2. More importantly, they are going to charge him with a felony. And he had to stay in jail overnight.
So, in short, my tendency to see things as ironic and amusing is just wrong here. This is terrible. You'd have to know Gary to understand this, and the judge won't know that. The facts are not good.
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