Atwater, of Hope Mills, was stopped at a Texas airport on New Year’s Eve trying to board a plane when security officers discovered C4 explosives in his carry-on luggage. He didn’t say where he got the explosives but implied that they were in his bag when he returned from deployment in Afghanistan. That means – egads! – that the Special Forces engineer had already passed through security checkpoints with the bombs in his bag.
He had previously been caught trying to fly with military smoke grenades in a carry-on, a fact that would make most of us even more vigilant about checking the contents of our bags, right?
If I’m fat and my face has the consistency of Josh Hamilton’s glove after a busy day in centerfield, blame Homeland Security for making me get rid of my toothpaste and the aforementioned moisturizer and Slim-Fast, my Meal Ready to Drink or MRD.
What was a ruggedly handsome – OK, ruggedly rugged – dude such as I doing with a tube of $70 skin moisturizer when, for years, a $2 jar of Vaseline used to be good enough?
Still trying to figure that one out myself, hoss, although the persuasive saleslady convinced me that it contained special healing nutrients found only at the bottom of the Dead Sea. I swear that’s what she said. And I believed it.
The TSA agent was unmoved and explained that the ingredients in the tube could perhaps be used to make an explosive. Thus, you figure that jettisoning a tube of expensive skin cream was a small price to pay to feel
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