The idiocy that Boo went though shows a lot about our Airport security. Come on, they didn't know who they were dealing with? Forget his celebrity, Just the fact that he was a "good ol boy" should have made them use some rational thought. But nooooooooo!
Boo Weekley
KAPALUA, HAWAII
STEWART MOORE: Boo Weekley, welcome to Maui, first and foremost. Thanks for spending some time with us here today. I know you and I were on the same flight coming out here from Los Angeles but you had spent quite some time in southern California trying to get out here. Talk to us about that.
BOO WEEKLEY: Actually it started in Pensacola when we got ready to leave Friday morning. We got there and everything -- we checked all the luggage and everything was good, and my little tote bag had to go through the screen. I had it in my bag and I used it for hunting and I left two bullets in it. That kind of was like right out of the gate started the whole week for me. They put the red flags on me. I had the cops there. I thought I was going to jail (laughter).
We got out of that, and then we sat there for two hours and waited and got on our plane going to Atlanta and we got to Atlanta and we was about five, ten minutes late getting into Atlanta and we missed our flight going to Atlanta so we spent the night there. Then we got up on Saturday morning, actually about 4:00 o'clock, and caught a flight at 6:00 and flew all the way into Los Angeles and we sat in Los Angeles for about nine hours in the terminal there waiting to get over here. Then finally got on that bird and came on over.
STEWART MOORE: Did you have to entertain your son that whole time?
BOO WEEKLEY: It was tough. It was tough to keep myself patient. I think I sat in every chair in the thing in there, in the airport.
Q. The bullets were from your carry-on bag, the bag you carry on?
BOO WEEKLEY: Yeah, it was my carry-on bag. It was sitting in my floorboard, and I used it for hunting, it was a little bit bigger bag and I could put more stuff in it. We went to Illinois dear hunting when we went over to China, and that's when I used it. I reckon I just left two bullets way down in the bottom of it. I couldn't find them, and they found them on that screen.
Q. Just for the record, what kind of bullets were they?
BOO WEEKLEY: They were .308s.
Q. How did you talk your way out of that one?
BOO WEEKLEY: I didn't. I just begged and pleaded. I just sat there and shook my head like I was an idiot, you know? Really, I was like, they're going to do their normal search, pull all my stuff out. They didn't say nothing. The security guys come up, the actual police guys, the dog and stuff, and he's sniffing around at my heels and stuff. What's going on here? They said, "We're going to rerun this one again." I said, "There ain't nothing in there." He said, "Yeah, there is." I said, "What's in there? I'll tell you where it's at." He said, "There's some bullets." I said, "What?" There was. There was two of them.
Q. Where did they take you from there?
BOO WEEKLEY: They confiscated the bullets and then broke down a bunch of stuff, got in everything about me and then put a flag by me. They said they were going to red flag me to get ready for what's going to happen for every time you fly now.
I can understand, they're doing their job. I'd want the same thing -- I understand it's an accident, and accidents do happen like this one, for sure. But it's kind of comical because no matter where you fly anyway we get red flagged half the time anyway, especially when we get one-way flights.
Q. So had those bullets been to China?
BOO WEEKLEY: No. I probably wouldn't have left. If I would have found them over there I wouldn't have left (laughter). There ain't no way.
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