Posted by In the long litany of ridiculous overreactions in the war on terrorism, this may be the most asinine of all:
Airport officials ordered a holidaymaker carrying a toy soldier onto a plane to remove its three-inch gun – because it was a safety threat.
Ken Lloyd was stunned when he was told he could not go on the plane with the nine-inch model soldier because it was carrying a ‘firearm’.
Balko’s response: “British airport officials have apparently received intelligence that Al Qaeda is recruiting an army of nine-inch terrorists.”