2006: Sex Toy In Luggage Gets Man In Trouble
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From 23-Aug-2006
Sex Toy In Luggage Gets Man In Trouble
Mardin Azad Amin found himself in a tight squeeze last week when security at O’Hare Airport discovered a suspicious-looking object in his luggage.
So Amin, 29, handled the delicate situation this way: He told security the object was a bomb, Cook County prosecutors said.The security guard then asked Amin to repeat what he’d said to a supervisor. This time, Amin was chuckling as he spoke, prosecutors said.
In fact, Amin was trying to disguise the fact that the black object — resembling a grenade — was a component for a penis pump.
All the same, Amin was charged with felony disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted, said Andrew Conklin, a spokesman with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Amin is due in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing, Conklin said.
Amin eventually told investigators he’d lied about the object’s true use because his mother was standing nearby when the object was discovered and he didn’t want her to know about it, Cook County assistant state’s attorney Lorraine Scaduto said during a bond hearing last week.
The incident occurred Aug. 16 as Amin was set to catch a flight to Turkey, Scaduto said.
Amin has no known criminal history, Scaduto said.
From 15-Sep-2006
Charges dropped in O'Hare penis pump scare
Mardin Amin's mother is probably still wondering why people made such a big fuss over a silly pump: the kind used to inflate soccer balls and the like.
An embarrassed Amin told his mother it was that type of device – not, in actuality, a penis pump -- that got him in trouble with O'Hare Airport security in August and prevented him from boarding an international flight with her.
But at least now the embarrassment and worry of having to appear in criminal court is over. Cook County prosecutors agreed Wednesday to drop a felony disorderly conduct charge against the Iraqi man, who faced up to three years in prison if convicted.
"You don't believe it -- I was dreaming about this court and what was going to happen," said Amin, wearing a new, $250 blue suit he bought just for his date at the 26th and California courthouse. "It's like a nightmare."
Amin's odd brush with the law began Aug. 16, when the 29-year-old, his two children and his mother were going through O'Hare security on a trip to Iraq. A security guard plucked a small, black rubber object from Amin's hand luggage, and asked him about it. Unwilling to openly say the words "penis pump" while his mother stood near, Amin twice whispered something that, according to Amin, the guard misinterpreted as "bomb."
Amin, who lives in Skokie, was promptly arrested and charged with a felony.
His attorney, Eileen M. O'Neill, said this week common sense demanded the Cook County state's attorney's office drop the charge.
"Right from the get-go, it made no sense that a guy who has worked as a translator for [the U.S.] Army in Iraq wouldn't know the consequences of saying, 'I have a bomb,' " O'Neill said.
John Gorman, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said the charges were dropped because the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration sent Amin a letter saying they only wished to issue a warning.
"Because the TSA was our victim and they didn't wish to pursue [the case], we dropped the charges," Gorman said.
A beaming Amin said he will now travel sans penis pump.
"Hell no," he said. "That pump give me a lot of trouble."
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What an idiot he was ~ that was a dangerous thing to say and still is dangerous. -
And that Sirs, madams and otherkins is the reason why you travel alone when you have sextoys in your luggage.
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Well, it could have been worse. He could have had one of these in his bag:
He'd really have a hard time explaining this to his mother as they pulled it out of his luggage.
