Do you think this would be allowed now?

Funny story.

In the early 80's my parents went to Malta on holiday. They used to sell a lot of old artifects left over from WW2 there at the time. My brother bought an old decomissioned British hand grenade (he still has it).

When they went to the airport my mother actually had the hand grenade in her hand, waving it up above her head, and went to security with it saying "its ok its not real"..

Amazingly they let her on the flight with it. What do you think would happen now if someone tried that?

Answers:
lol.that is a funny story. It's amazing how much things have changed. Today, she would probably be tackled by a swat team, shackled, strip searched, and confined to a tiny cell while they processed her as a terroristic threat to society.she would be branded for life!
They would probably hold her a gun point when she raised it in the air!
If that happened now she`d be shot dead no questions asked.
YOU ARE JOKING,NEVER
Your Mother would be thrown to the ground by 18 SWAT team members! LOL

Times certainly have changed.
I wonder.
I imagine they would be knocked to the ground, held at gunpoint with search dogs barking in their faces, pulled up and handcuffed. Then they would be led away to a little room where they would be intensely questioned with no lawyers present, and charges would no doubt be filed.
she'd be pounced on by armed police & all your family would be carted away for questioning if of course the police aren't operating a shoot on sight policy!

seriously that happened?? good story!
all flights would be delayed for 6 months and your family would spend the rest of their days in a smelly cockroach infested maltese prison
the shop would probably would not be allowed sell it
Judging by the reactions on the news, she would probably be shot.
i enjoyed your story thank you i think they might just take it from her and tell her how they could cart her off to jail but in the end i think they would just take it from her.
three words: anal cavity search
Probably get jumped by the staff. Hey, now that you say that, I saw a guy piloting what looked like a small LST in a Dutch canal and probably got it the same way. Worked fine, too.
The probably would have cavity searched her immediately.
Wow, things sure have changed. Today she would probably be surrounded by a special forces team while the airport was evacuated.
What do you think would happen? All hell would break loose.
they will get to go on a long period holiday.. somewhere dark..
JAIL!!
they would probably be shot! on the spot! everybody else on the floor running in fear for their lives! what a top mum you have :)
They will have guns pointed at them, and when they find out it's fake off to court they go and they won't take it lightly, considering the distribution caused at the airport.
today a person doing that would be in prison for a very long time.. are you nuts? don't you read the papers/news??
I think gypsy rose is the closest, but I think charges would not be filed. For the people who think it wouldn't go down this way, did you read about the Indians in Amsterdam? The entire plane was emergency landed and they were detained, questioned and searched, for using laptops and sharing cell phones.

http://indiaenews.com/2006-08/19899-indi.

they were stock traders - ooh scary!


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