Quote:I'd say the size is more like half of a full-sized keyboard. Maybe the size of a shoe, and they make us take off our shoes because they might hold enough explosive to bring down an airplane. I'm still not sure why I have to take off my shoes when I go into a courthouse, it's not like the courthouse is going to plummet 35,000 feet if a shoe-sized bomb goes off.


 

In any case this is typical government in action. It at least seems more reasonable than suspending a kid for bringing a gun into school when the gun in question is the one carried by a 3" plastic army man.

 

Point taken.  After looking at the photo again, it might be a bit bigger than I described, but not much.

 

As far as taking shoes off going into a courthouse, that's kind of ridiculous in my opinion.  I can understand when screening to board an airplane, but not on the ground.

 

I do wonder if plastic army men are still sold for kids?  I can remember as a child not only having the little plastic green ones, but there were also little soldiers molded to look like the British and the U.S. as well as others molded to look like the north and south.

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