A woman at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport was stopped by agents when they found high heels shoes that looked like guns in her carry-on bag, according to a UPI.com report.
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Farbstein says the woman was told that she could put the items in her checked luggage.
There is no question this was an embarrassing incident, but exactly who should be embarrassed is a matter of dispute.
TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein called such accessories “less than ideal to wear or bring to a TSA checkpoint”, noting that the traveler was delayed because she wanted to bring this pair of platforms along.
TSA A TSA spokeswoman said that passengers are not allowed to bring realistic gun replicas on planes. In other words, the TSA wastes time on nonsense because otherwise it would end up wasting time on nonsense.
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The agency discovered 2,653 actual firearms at its checkpoints in the year 2015, an average of seven per day. They missed the test items 95 percent of the time.
