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Oopsie, Wrong Bag: Long Island Woman Stopped At JFK Packin' 400 Bullets Oopsie, Wrong Bag: Long Island Woman Stopped At JFK Packin' 400 Bullets
Oopsie, Wrong Bag: Long Island Woman Stopped At JFK Packin' 400 Bullets Bullets over the Belt Parkway? A Long Island woman said she accidentally grabbed the wrong bag and ended up trying to carry 400 rounds of ammo onto a flight at JFK Airport, authorities said. The various rounds -- 12-gauge, .308-caliber, .223-caliber and 9mm -- were packed in nine boxes and included ammunition for shotguns and handguns, TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said Transportation Security Administration officers stopped the Hicksville woman and notified Port Authority police, who confiscated the ammunition and gave her a summons. The unidentified woman reportedly told them she'd mi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac 'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac
'People Are Fainting, Throwing Up': JetBlue Passengers Beg To Deplane On Newark Tarmac Panicked JetBlue passengers were captured on video begging crew members to let them disembark after spending hours trying to land in Newark due to bad weather keeping them from JFK. "I don’t care about JFK — it’s our lives," one passenger on the April 8 flight from Cancun can be heard saying on Sabrina Ettinger's video. "People are sick back there, people are fainting, people are throwing up. A little respect for human beings." Passengers can be heard pleading with crew members to let them off, despite having to wait hours in customs at either airport. "We're scared to fly we want to get …

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by Cecilia Levine