Airport Smuggles Weapons
Past TV Station Security
Allentown, PA | It began as a 60 Minutes-style ambush interview by KIBL Channel 97, which the week before had managed to slip a lead-lined camera case past screeners at Newark Airport.
But the station ended up exposing itself after luring two airport representatives to the studio for a thinly disguised investigative report.
In their duffle bags, coats, pants, hats and shoes, the two managed to secret an AK-37, a surface to air missile launcher, 24 ninja throwing stars, a 17th Century blunderbuss, 2 samurai swords, 100 bottle rockets, 2 Italian dueling pistols, and 6 shoe horns past the television station's own security kiosk.
As the video cameras began taping, Captain Charlie DiGrasse and Lieutenant Mel Thwarp began producing their concealed weapons. They then took control of the station, forcing the reporter and film crew to strip naked and dance around the control room singing "In Heaven There Is No Beer."
They also pre-empted the on-air broadcast of Crossing Over with a tape of Front Line about how local news programs have betrayed the public trust by filling the airwaves with sensationalist nonsense designed to increase ratings rather than educate and inform their viewers.
"All these so-called investigative reporters are just trying to fill up their demo reels to apply for jobs at the major networks." Captain DiGrasse later said. "And besides, that John Edward guy is full of shit."
