AIRPORT SECURITY: Urgent questions are being asked of just how lax the security at JFK International Airport, New York, is after the Statue of Liberty was spotted boarding a plane to Charles de Gaulle Airport, France.
No less (because you can’t get less) than President Trump was at the forefront of a twitter storm after photos of the famous statue began appearing all over social media.
”She was in a real rush,” a fellow commuter told LCD Views, “she shoved my Jean out of the way and took our place in the check-in queue. I was going to say something, but then I saw her expression and thought it’s probably best to let it go.”
How exactly a 93m statue holding a flaming torch was allowed to proceed through check-in, security and then to the boarding gate and onto the Air France flight is uppermost in the questions demanding answers.
”It’s because she’s famous,” Jean’s husband reckons, “you can do pretty much anything you want if you’re famous. People just let you do it.”
And Jean’s husband’s theory seems a likely reason for the blatant failure to stop a giant, enraged metal woman with a flaming torch from boarding the flight. Mostly because of who said something similar during their presidential campaign.
”Do you fault the good lady?” the statue of Winston Churchill, on College Green, posted on its twitter account, “I’m packing my bags too and heading for the continent. I’m done with obvious thieving, lying, useless idiot chancers being given currency in our political establishment. I’m off to seclusion to write about the dangers and plan the resistance.”
At the time of going to print the French government was tight lipped and refusing to comment. But already on Twitter photos are appearing of a monumental green woman standing next to the Eiffel Tower like she’s just minding her own business…