{"id":2344,"date":"2012-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/23\/flaming-lips-frontman-wayne-coy-sparks-oklahoma-airport-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2012-11-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T00:00:00","slug":"flaming-lips-frontman-wayne-coy-sparks-oklahoma-airport-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/23\/flaming-lips-frontman-wayne-coy-sparks-oklahoma-airport-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Lips Frontman Wayne Coy Sparks Oklahoma Airport Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/24\/Wayne_Coyne_outside_Wal-Mart.jpg\/220px-Wayne_Coyne_outside_Wal-Mart.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"115\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coy succeeded in shutting down Will Rogers airport in Oklahoma on Nov. 10 when the TSA found a hand grenade in the singer&#8217;s carry-on bag. According to TMZ, Coy and his wife were headed to Los Angeles for a preview of the new musical by The Lips &#8220;Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots&#8221; when the incident occured.  <!--more-->  Coy told the Transportation Security Agents that the grenade was a dud, but the rules obliged the TSA to shut the airport down anyways and they did so. As to why Coy decided to try to bring a grenade into an airport, he later told Pitchfork that the band had been at a house party the previous night where he found the grenade and decided on a whim to keep it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an actual grenade that was now missing its explosive parts and painted gold. I just threw this gold grenade in my bag and had not quite thought about it,&#8221; Coy told Pitchfork. <\/p>\n<p>Coy later tweeted an apology to people who had been inconvenienced by the TSA lockdown but not too sorry. He later told Pitchfork: &#8220;I would agree that it was stupid of me, but I don&#8217;t feel wholly responsible if people missed their flights. I&#8217;m not making the rules. It&#8217;s not illegal for me to have that grenade with me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that hand grenades are on the TSA&#8217;s list of items that are prohibited in carry-on bags<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coy succeeded in shutting down Will Rogers airport in Oklahoma on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}