I want the brick, though. S&M stuff I can pick up anytime -- this is San Francisco, after all.
After the first year of the program, they published a long list of all the items confiscated, in order of the number confiscated. You know, x thousand pocket knives, x-2 thousand toenail clippers, and so on. Then it got down into the weird shit, like 5 agricultural sicles, if memory serves. Finally, at the very bottom:
. . . and one brick.
That's always bothered me, in a funny sort of way. Who the heck tried to bring a brick onto an airplane, fer cryin' out loud? And why? And why confiscate it? Were they afraid that the passenger might hijack the plane brandishing a brick? Weirdness.
Maybe it was a special brick. Maybe it was someone's pet or something. Anyway, I'd kind of like to have it.
