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Clown School Student Who Tried to Smuggle Gold-Plated Pistol into Australia Claims Google Said It Was 'OK' (www.latintimes.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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From Florida, of course 😄

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 99 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

There's even more to the story, every step even more absurd than the other:

US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
US woman backflips in court, pleads guilty to smuggling 24-carat gold gun into Sydney

A review of Goodson’s phone revealed she had searched online “can I have a gun in my suitcase?” and set a calendar entry with a note reminding her to “put gun in suitcase”.

“What about the gun in your bag?” she was asked by a customs officer. Goodson replied: “Oh yeah, I forgot about that.”

"I am scared of shooting it... I would probably just pistol whip until I got training again," she said.

The court also heard that she previously owned two other guns while living in the States, but she had accidentally given them away. "Those guns I ended up giving away, because I accidentally left them in a donation box."

[–] infectoid@lemmy.world 95 points 2 weeks ago

Clown school principal: “I’m sorry ma’am, we have nothing to teach you.”

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

US woman backflips in court

I'm gonna need a courtroom sketch of that

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago

You’re welcome.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

The stupid of this chick really manages to one-up itself with each sentence, huh?

[–] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

Holy fuck 💀

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is so bizarre. Clown school? Gold plated gun?

And to top it off, an American with no concept of laws being different outside the US

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wow that's as Florida as it gets