HUCK FISH: Makin' life just a little harder for his fellow air travellers than it ought to be

Hey, if you were a college student about to take a plane home to Newark from Argentina, you'd toss part of a stick of dynamite as a memento into your suitcase, right? Well, maybe after a few six-packs.


And so here's a photo of Lafayette lacrosse player Howard "Huck" Fish, helping two ladies who've had more than a few too many at the proverbial college part-ay! Where is the Girls Gone Wild team?!

These come from a photo page, mounted by one of Howard's (or Huck, as he is know to pals) teammates. It tooks about twenty seconds to find this on the Net. So, Huck, I'm sure the FBI so believed you when you told 'em you worked with explosives! You should have said, "Hey, I was drunk!" That might have worked.

Dick Destiny blog also likes this one, of a friend at the same spring wing-ding, called Bart takin' a knee!

Writes the Associated Press of Huck and his big dynamite air adventure:

Howard Fish said he felt as if he had been punched in the stomach when he received a call at work from the FBI Friday telling him his son was in custody after authorities found a stick of dynamite in his airline luggage.

"When the FBI calls and says, 'Do you have a son named Howard Fish?' you don't have a great feeling," Fish, of Old Lyme, said Friday night . . .

[Fish's father said his son] was traveling alone in South America for more than three weeks and bought the dynamite while on a trip to a silver mine in Chile or Bolivia.

Operators of the mine that he visited directed Fish, a student at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., to buy presents for the miners. He bought a stick of dynamite and ended up keeping it.

"He threw it in his suitcase," his father said . . .

"I am absolutely confident of what happened," he said. "It's a 21-year-old kid not paying careful attention to the press and thinking it would be cool to have a piece of dynamite."

This version of the story different slightly from that turned in at the Allentown Morning Call:

Fish's father said the dynamite was a souvenir his son, nicknamed Huck, got during a tour of a silver mine while on a three-week vacation in South America.

''They gave them all a little package that is part of the silver mining process, which included a piece of dynamite,'' Howard MacFarland Fish 3rd said in a telephone interview from his home in Old Lyme, Conn. ''He dumped it into his suitcase. It was not tremendous judgment, given what goes on in the air today.''

Fish said his son made a ''terrible mistake'' and was ''entirely innocent.'' He said his son thought the souvenir was ''neat'' and sent his parents an e-mail about it during his trip.

The U.S. attorney's office in Houston said Huck Fish would appear before a federal magistrate Monday . . .

The second version sounds about right.

In any case, Huck, Dick Destiny blog is sure your fellow travellers wanted to hang you on the spot. And people in the government won't be too thrilled either, because this well-placed story shows one can walk through a foreign airport with dynamite in your bags and get it on an airplane. And bomb-sniffing dogs will detect it in the US, but by then it's too late!

To heck with this mix your liquid bomb in the jet-liner bathroom nonsense!

Atta-boy!