Security?
I have one of these:
It was a gift from someone. It makes having a “springy” book open while doing somthing else (like typing) easy (It actually preserves my books as I am less inclined to grab the book and bend it back sharply to keep the page open). It is available here.
Now I know I should be careful where I leave it. My kids could get ahold of it, for christsake!
TAMPA, Fla. — A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport.
It wasn’t a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark.
Kathryn Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Fla., airport found her bookmark. It’s an 8.5-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end.
Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
She faced a possible criminal trial and a $10,000 fine. But the state declined to prosecute, and the Transportation Security Administration said it probably won’t impose a fine.
Harrington said she’ll never again carry her bookmark into an airport.
