r/comics • A Penny For Your Thoughts • 29d ago

OC Airport Security (OC)

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u/mariahmce 29d ago

I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!

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u/UlnaWannaBeWithYou 29d ago

Ok something about casually telling a TSA agent “I have an IED” made me laugh out loud 🤣

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u/amyel26 29d ago

That happened to me too. But my TSA agent just said "You said WHAT?" And when I said IUD verrry slowly he calmed down and was like oooooh okay that's not a problem then.

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u/snowfloeckchen 29d ago

Is ied common for Improvised explosive device in the English language?

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u/The_Pastmaster 29d ago

Yep. It was on the news every time the Taliban blew up a military convoy in Iraq (and Afghanistan?) during the Iraq War..

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u/bantha121 29d ago

The Taliban wasn't in Iraq, they were in Afghanistan

Iraq was insurgents

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u/gopher1409 29d ago

Iraqi Freedom was against Saddam for the WMDs that weren’t real.

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u/atridir 29d ago

If only they went with bringing him to justice for bombing a city of ~50k of his own civilians with chemical weapons in the ‘80s….it would have been difficult to argue against that justification for the war.