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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_fe_st/penis_pump_threat Thu Aug 24, 6:17 PM ET
CHICAGO - A Cook County judge has decided there is enough evidence to prosecute a man who says an airport security guard misheard him when she thought he said that a sexual device in his backpack was actually a bomb.
Mardin Amin claims he actually told the guard the small, black object was a "pump" — as in a penis pump.
Amin's attorney said her client was embarrassed to explain the object in front of his mother, who was traveling with him, so he whispered. The guard misunderstood, and thought he said "bomb," according to defense attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke.
"His mother is standing there so, under his breath, he says, 'It's a pump. Put it away. Put it away,'" O'Neill-Burke told The Associated Press on Thursday. The guard asked him again and he repeated that the object was a pump, the attorney said.
O'Neill-Burke added that Amin, an Iraqi, has a thick accent and she herself had trouble understanding him until he brought the pump to her office and showed it to her. She said she recently learned that Arabic speakers sometimes have trouble distinguishing the sounds "p" and "b."
However, Judge Gerald Winiecki decided there was sufficient evidence for the case to move forward after the female security guard testified that she heard Amin "clearly" say the word bomb on Aug. 16 at O'Hare International Airport.
Amin, 29, of Skokie, is charged with felony disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted. He was released on $75,000 bond and is due back in court Sept. 13. O'Neill-Burke said he will plead not guilty then.
Amin told the Chicago Sun-Times after the hearing that security officials did not give him a chance to explain the misunderstanding, that he would never use the word "bomb" while going through a security checkpoint, and does not consider a penis pump an unusual object to own.
"It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it."
One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Austin Powers.
I'm telling ya baby, that's not mine.
One warranty card for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, filled out by Austin Powers.
I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby.
One book, "Swedish-made Penis Enlargers And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag Baby", by Austin Powers
hehehe.
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Post subject: Re: It just looks like a penis pump mom
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:10 pm
too drunk to moderate properly
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conoalias wrote:
KillingZoe wrote:
"It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it."
anyone care to admit to this?
Is this some kind of electronic substitute for my hand?
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This guy should get at least 6 months just based on the fact that he is 29 yrs old and a) flying with his mommy & b) packing a penis pump. The article said this guy is Iraqi, right? Well as far as I'm concerned he doesn't get to participate in the new democracy.
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Ampson11 wrote:
Well as far as I'm concerned he doesn't get to participate in the new democracy.
Neither do any other Iraqis.
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anyone care to admit to this?
