I have been informed that, when viewed through security checkpoint x-ray equipment, talking stuffed bears look disturbingly like incindiary devices. My authority on this is no less than a very polite and courteous, but equally firm and insistent young TSA agent.Â
Talking stuffed bears are also disturbingly prone to refuse a command performance when it is demanded. Particularly when the audience is a tight knot of uniformed TSA officers.
If you so feel compelled to travel with a talking stuffed bear, I would strongly advise placing said bear in your checked luggage.Â
This will circumvent the necessity for a full body-cavity search.
Of the bear, that is.
(PS – Leftover Greek pizza, however, excites no comment when viewed through a security X-ray. It is apparently incapable of looking like anything but leftover Greek pizza)
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Bwahahahaha….The rough life of a talking bear. Its fair though, Teddy Ruxpin used to always creep me out when I’d baby-sit my niece (and SHE was terrified of it). – If some TSA person wants to give him a few gropes with out the kindness of a reach-around…well I figure he had that coming for creeping out all of those kids for all of those years.
Ha ha ha! So noted.
I think that I’d find a talking bear a little freaky, so I don’t know that I’m entirely unsympathetic to the TSA person. That said, WonderBaby freaks out at any untoward handling of her stuffed or plastic peeps, so I can see where one would want to avoid this.