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Stupid Criminal of the Week

By TChris, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:54:21 AM EST
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by TChris

One might think a state supreme court justice would know better than to try this:

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice hid a small pocketknife in his carry-on bag after airport screeners told him it could not be carried on the flight, Harrisburg airport police said.

Justice Thomas Saylor, Jr. was reportedly offered a number of options after TSA found the knife, but "concealing the item in his carry-on bag was not one of them." Prosecutors are reviewing the case for possible charges, while the TSA may pursue a civil penalty.

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    Stupid Criminal of the Week | 12 comments (12 topical)
    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 11:43:44 AM EST
    Another moron who thinks the rules don't apply to him, even when he's told point blank that they do.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#2)
    by kdog on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 12:05:38 PM EST
    Granted, we all should know better these days....BUT I don't know if I can consider this judge a criminal, even by a stretch. Forbidding nailclippers and pen knives on planes is moronic. Kindergarten law enforcement.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#3)
    by wishful on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 12:13:22 PM EST
    Maybe this judge will use his considerable power to try to influence his cohorts that reasonableness should apply--to him as well as the rest of us. Or maybe not.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 12:34:42 PM EST
    I'm more concerned about his disregard for the law at this moment than about the law itself, which is silly and doesn't make me feel safer. As a citizen, I feel that I have a right to practice civil disobedience of laws that I don't agree with. If I were elected/appointed to the judiciary, I imagine I would have to obey all laws to set an example. Just another case of one set of rules for the haves and one for the have nots.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 12:48:42 PM EST
    When the TSA decided, after three years of flying with it, that my cigar lighter was a "Reid-style" lighter and had not travel with me they told me to ship it by USPS. Except, of course you can't do that. $78 down the drain. -C

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#6)
    by kdog on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 01:01:28 PM EST
    I hear that Cliff, not cool. Now if we had a law against bueracratic nonsensical stupidity...

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#7)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 01:18:33 PM EST
    I must have gone through 3 or 4 mustache scissors in the last 3 years. Someone out there has quite an arsenal built up.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#8)
    by kdog on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 01:50:22 PM EST
    WMPG...Weapons of mass personal grooming

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 04:18:38 PM EST
    At least there was no threat of that pocket knife, in a drunken stupor, driving into a car load of teenagers.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#10)
    by kipling on Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 05:48:55 PM EST
    Clearly, the man's a dangerous terrorist, or aiding and abetting them. I say 20 years...in Gitmo! (it's called irony, folks).

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#11)
    by cp on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 05:27:57 AM EST
    in a way, i find some small comfort in knowing that gross stupidity crosses all boundries. i've had to leave nail clippers, files, etc. in my car, in the a/p parking lot, since sept. 2001, because you know, i might hijack the plane with them. i finally reached the point where i take no carry-on with me, it's just too much of a hassle. i then pray that my luggage actually greets me at my destination, as opposed to going off on its own vacation.

    Re: Stupid Criminal of the Week (none / 0) (#12)
    by Robert on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 08:24:28 AM EST
    I wonder if I could hijack a plane with my box of sharpened #2 pencils...

    Stupid Criminal of the Week | 12 comments (12 topical)