Damn that's embarrassing, but hilarious.

[Dogmatic187]

The female airport security guard held the small, black, squeezable rubber object she'd just plucked out of Mardin Amin's backpack, and eyed it suspiciously.

Standing next to his mother, an embarrassed Amin whispered out of one corner of his mouth that it was a "pump" -- as in a penis pump. The guard misunderstood the Iraqi man and thought she heard the word "bomb," Amin's attorney told a Cook County judge Wednesday.

"He told her it's a pump," attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke said as a cluster of burly, snickering police officers watched the court proceedings. "He's standing with his mother. Of course he's not going to shout this out."

But after listening to the female guard testify she heard Amin "clearly" say the word bomb during the Aug. 16 incident at O'Hare Airport, Judge Gerald Winiecki decided there was enough evidence for the case to move forward. Amin, 29, is charged with felony disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pump24.html

:laugh:

Why people continue to travel with things of that nature pluzzles me.

 

[EDouble]

3 years in prison what a fuckin Joke

people are losin their minds with this airport shit. 'he clearly said bomb' yeah That Makes Sense & im sure that & how the case is now Movin forward has nothin to do with his last name bein Amin either

 

[EDouble]

LMAO@ the pump though fruit cake motherfucka

 

[tennis_dog]

well, im sure his islamic last name has alot to do with it...but yeah, why would you carry a cock pump when traveling with your mother....makes you kinda wonder...

 

[_carmi]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *takes break* hahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[C.R.Y.]

i hope they dont make him do time, that would be fucked up. but yeah, that was hilarious

 

[Duke]

It's always been an enigma to me how people in general can think that a serious terrorist would fucking tell security he has a bomb. The fuck you think?

Paranoid idiots. Keep it up over there in the land of the free, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Jurhum]

David Price clarifies the affair.

"As an anthropologist and Arabic speaker," Price tells CounterPunch," let me call attention to a vital aspect of this story. Simply put, Arabic has no 'Ps' and all native Arabic speakers voice their bilabials as 'Bs', thus it is pretty obvious that any native Arabic speaker with an accent would say the word 'pump' as the word 'bumb' --which the poorly-trained and overly paranoid airport security worker mis-heard as 'bomb.'

"As has happened here, with newspapers such as the Chicago Sun Times, news pieces with the words 'penis pump' will generate guffaws from sea to shinning sea, but by not stating what the obvious context of this misunderstanding is, the Sun Times is adding to a dangerous climate of American anti-Arab sentiment."

That should clarify a few things.

 

[Duke]

Simply put, Arabic has no 'Ps' and all native Arabic speakers voice their bilabials as 'Bs', thus it is pretty obvious that any native Arabic speaker with an accent would say the word 'pump' as the word 'bumb' --which the poorly-trained and overly paranoid airport security worker mis-heard as 'bomb.'

Aye, I expected that there was a distinct difference in pronunciation. So lol @ poorly trained and overly paranoid. Nail on the head.

 

[ARon]

I'm guessing he was randomly selected to be searched too? Shit is upsetting.