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Published on December 23rd, 2008

A children’s entertainer dressed as a comedy policeman was strip-searched down to his briefs by security staff at Birmingham International Airport.

PC Konk, aka David Vaughan, from Shard End in Birmingham, was accompanying 100 disadvantaged children for a charity flight run by Variety Club Midlands. But a metal clasp in his costume set off the security-check alarms.

He was made to strip down to his shorts and surrender his plastic handcuffs before boarding the hour-long flight…

“When I got to security check-out I had to take my boots off, and my hat off, and my little props I had on me, through the X-ray.

Mr Vaughan was asked to remove his oversized floppy shoes and flashing policeman’s helmet and place the bubble-making liquid for his pretend saxophone in a clear plastic bag, before he was allowed on the Thomas Cook plane.

The hour-long charity flight, for disadvantaged children, circled the Midlands on Tuesday.

Bureaucrats really are such cowards. Maybe that’s part qualification for the job.

7 users responded in " Clown Copper strip-searched at airport "

# 1 deowll said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 am

I keep reading about equipment that ought to make it easy to tell if somebody is carrying something that would set off a metal detector is dangerous or not without this sort of bull.

Unless those plastic handcuffs were more robust than toys???

They have to look at everything or there is no point in looking at anything.

Exactly what the problem was with the shoes and hat after they checked it… who knows?

I’m also not clear on why soapy water in a plastic bag is better than in a bottle.

In England freedom, privacy, and rights are just words with no meaning. Everything has gone for public safety and are they safer?

Not from the government.

# 2 Improbus said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm

In the end you aren’t safe from the terrorists OR the government. England is looking more and more like the movie V for Vendetta.

# 3 ECA said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm

“Bureaucrats really are such cowards”

You mean the ones that FLY in their own aircraft?? to get to town, then SIT in the back seat of a LARGE car while some one ELSE drives??

# 4 Kanjy said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

What was he thinking, heading through airport security dressed as a policeman, carrying handcuffs, and breaking several other TSA rules? Accompanied with a hundred children for a good cause or not, you’ve got to stick to the rules.

# 5 EvilPoliticians said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm

And what would you do? Laugh at the silly outfit and let the guy through?

The TSA is held accountable for any security issue. If they let this funny guy through without checking and he later did something, heads would roll.

I hate to fly now but I don’t envy the zero issue expectations set upon the TSA by the politicians and public.

# 6 Ah_Yea said, on December 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm

His problem was he was getting on the wrong transport.

Although he was trying to get on the Thomas the Cook Plane, he was booked on the Thomas the Steam Engine.

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/index.asp?origref=

# 7 GetSmart said, on December 24th, 2008 at 6:57 am

They thought he was impersonating a TSA Occifer.

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