US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year

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• Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is so much happening in this article

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  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This commenter dug up even more baffling details: aussie.zone/post/15912083/13633454

    The Guardian’s headline is.pretty tame all things considered. You could have had:

    • US woman backflips in court, pleads guilty to smuggling 24-carat gold gun into Sydney
    • Clown school student who tried to smuggle gold-plated pistol into Australia claims Google said it was ‘OK’

    From the first one:

    Goodson had declared that she was carrying cat, squirrel and rabbit parts on her incoming passenger card, but failed to mention the gun.

    …

    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."

    From the last one:

    Her lawyer said she packed the pistol because she was high and paranoid from synthetic marijuana

    She also has a horn and a bone through her nose.

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You shouldn’t clown around at the airport

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• CTDummy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not sure why this clown (in training) wasn’t just deported back to the US. Guess the state wanted to make sure she was charged so she didn’t duck responsibility. Ah well, she’ll have a tale to tell when she gets deported at the end of her sentence I guess.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    cause if they just sent her back the americans would only give her another one when she landed so whats the point.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess the US woman didn’t realize that the second amendment isn’t valid outside the US.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not gold, it’s Australium.

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• truxnell@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  She was just playing a fun N64 Goldeneye game mode, leave her alone

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  • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I go to the airport I have game set to slappers only.

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “The court was told in recent years, Goodson was using psychedelic drugs, synthetic cannabis and crystal meth amphetamines.”

  What? Nooooooooo!

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  She should have tried to smuggle it in in the form or a golden cigarette case, golden cigarette lighter, golden pen and golden cufflink.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Scaramanga

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