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Wayna
According to a statement released by her management team, Wayna was attempting to go through security when she was questioned about a stage prop found in her carry-on bag. The item, which is being described as a 24-inch baton, is used during the performance of her song, "Billy Club," off of her album, Higher Ground. The song, which also features Three Stars artist Muhsinah, is an eerie ballad that protests police brutality. She explained that she was a performer and had inadvertently packed the item in her carry-on as opposed to checked luggage. Even though she insisted that she had no intent to use the prop as a weapon, Wayna was arrested and charged. Early this morning, she was released from jail on $5,000 bail, according to the statement.
"She’s very shook up but she’s had encouragement and love from family and friends around the world," said Fiona Bloom, Wayna's publicist.
Just last month, Wayna was up for a Grammy award in the "Best Urban/Alternative Performance" category for her song, "Loving You (Music)."
An arraignment hearing is set for Friday in Houston.
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Seriously, you can be arrested for possession of what is basically a two-foot long stick? And it's a FELONY?
Wtf? Seriously. This is a 3rd degree felony? For having a baton in your carry on?
Heaven help you if you carry knitting needles into Texas, then.
This is just fucking ridiculous. I hate Texas. And I hate all power-tripping airport personnel. I hope these charges get dropped.
Dammit.
Here's my near-monthly apology for all the things that Texas does wrong, from a Texan. All of those of us who are embarrassed by this over-reaction apologize.
In other Texan news,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/25/texas.evolution.teaching/index.html
Intelligent individuals (such as myself, and we're few and far between) know that Darwin was right.
Natural Selection, Baby!
I'm out of the gene pool, woohoo!
And this being Texas, if it had been a firearm, they would have politely asked her to demonstrate that it was not loaded, and then she would have been on her way!
Ridiculous is an understatement.
And this being Texas, if it had been a firearm, they would have politely asked her to demonstrate that it was not loaded, and then she would have been on her way!
Ridiculous is an understatement.
This time the Fucking Texans (FT) aren't to blame, it is the Fucking Transportation Security Administration (FTSA).
Remember these are the idiots who kill people at airport check-points, shake down two- and ninety-seven- year-old paying passengers, AND make you take your shoes off so you can BE FUCKING SAFE.
Hello, Wayna, I'm Tex. Penal Code Chapter 46. Pleased to be meeting you. My favorite restaurant is Applebee's, I love Friday Night Lights, I'm a huuuuuuge Cowboys fan (seriously, I weigh 300 pounds...it's a glandular thing), I don't take to city folk, and I have a ridiculously broad definition of "club":
I also make it illegal to take clubs in or into the secured area of an airport.Sorry for the misunderstanding, but let's totally be Facebook friends! KTHXBAI!
Right! This dipshit clearly has not one shred of common sense. The government was concerned enough about cockpit invasions that they required airlines to reinforce doors to the flight decks. I think it’s pretty silly to take an instrument through airport security which could help you do just that, invade the cockpit. But it’s so easy to jump on the trite “Redneck Texas” bandwagon, like it’s so fucking perfect and glamorous here in DC; with all our homeless people and astronomical crime rates and poverty and shitty public schools and all. Puh-lezzzze. This arrest would’ve happened at any airport.
Because Texas has no homeless people, poverty, crime, or bad schools?
Nope. Not like here. Sorry.
Hello, Wayna, I'm Tex. Penal Code Chapter 46. Pleased to be meeting you. My favorite restaurant is Applebee's, I love Friday Night Lights, I'm a huuuuuuge Cowboys fan (seriously, I weigh 300 pounds...it's a glandular thing), I don't take to city folk, and I have a ridiculously broad definition of "club":
I also make it illegal to take clubs in or into the secured area of an airport.Sorry for the misunderstanding, but let's totally be Facebook friends! KTHXBAI!
confident! confident!
dry and demure,
raise your hand,
if you smell like horse manure!
Ultimately, the problem is that Wayna is attracted to me, and I don’t want her. My gray skin, droopy jowls, clothes that reek of cigarette smoke, and industrial strength, automatically-refreshed prescription for Viagra proved to be too much for her to resist. I know this to be true, because I said so.
P.S. I’m better than you, and richer too! And alliteration is my ally! Whee!
good thing the song wasn't titled Vial of Anthrax
This is nuts. Couldn't they just have said "you gotta check it." ?
So ... S&M gear in checked luggage, not carry-on, when traveling through Texas. Got it.
In other news ... do you suppose there will be a Texas and/or TSA- persecution-themed song on Wayna's next album?
Back in the day, a kid on the baseball team was arrested at my high school for (*gasp*) having a baseball bat in the backseat of his car. He was on his way out to go to practice when he was arrested, because guess what, baseball bats are also considered weapons....and yea, the charges were the same as this chick.