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US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year (www.theguardian.com)
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Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia in 2023 to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Liliana Goodson travelled to Australia to attend clown school with the gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage

Um, yeah, I have no notes here. US woman. Clown school. Gold-plated pistol. Yup. All seems pretty standard.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This woman makes a lot of very interesting decisions, to put it mildly.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

The real question is: why travel to Sydney for clown school? Evidently the natural born Florida clowns don't have anything to learn.