Thank goodness you didn't have a giant anvil in there.

 

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Glad you weren't carrying a sock. Because, as we know, socks can totally blow things up.

 

do they have back rooms in subway stations where they take people for the REALLY invasive searches? that sounds like it would be a recipe for disease.
and despite not having a bomb or anvil, it would, however, have been rad if you had some of that paint that they use in cartoons to create tunnels.

 

What? No loud, inappropriate comment making you either embarrassed or a suspect? I'm disappointed.

 

I thought for sure that story was going to end with you having a bag full of show and tell items for a sex ed class!

 

Sounds like the time I was coming back from TJ with a friend and when the border security asked her what high school she went to, she was so freaked out by then that screamed "I was born in Massachusetts!"

 

Fraulein- i KNOW. It was a close one too. The anvils I usually carry in my pockets.

Spammer guy- I love judy garland in my own private way and I do not need to go to your msn group to do it.

J- I've heard that.

K- I bet if they do have such rooms, those rooms are in terrible need of sterilization because it is GROSS in the subway.

OTV- Sorry to disappoint. I'm sure, had I had more coffee at that point, I'd be blogging from jail.

UC- I wish I taught a sex ed class.

Manny- Next time, I'll try that line.

 

You think that's bad? Try this

 

OMG, I'm still lmao at the Michael Jordan remark.

 

Yeah, so I'm REALLY behind in reading and posting. So, my question is this...If the NYPD decided to only search Muslim men aged 19-45, would you argue it was racial profiling?

 

Hey CS! Long time no see.

Absolutely, I'd call that racial profiling. Wouldn't you?

And lest you misunderstand, I wasn't complaining about being searched. Safety first! I was mostly confused about what sort of item would set off their alarm bells, you know?

 

Well, I doubt they were really "looking." Pulling the average white American aside and looking through their bags satisfies the local chapter of the ACLU. Unlike urban crime, Islamic terrorism stems from young males from one large ethnic group.

It's interesting to note how no one was screaming racial profiling or even ethnic profiling in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. For at least two years, white American males driving any sort of moving truck through downtown would be stopped an searched. A friend of mine worked with a transportation company at the time and was stopped at least 3-4 times a week.

It would be interetsing to research the treatment of Irish Americans during the the uprising of the IRA during the latter half of the 20th Century in cities such as Boston and New York.

If they were indeed stopped at a disproportionate ratio to other ethnic groups, it would be interesting to see if any issue was made out of it.

 

Yes, yes, CS, we know. Poooooor little white males, so maligned. It's so HARD for them. Tragic.