Worst Liar Ever

According to this story, Madin Azad Amin was traveling from Chicago to Turkey with his mother when airport security asked him about a suspicious object in his baggage. Not wanting his mother to know that the object was a penis pump, Amin told the security staff that it was merely...a grenade. Yes, a grenade. Security arrested Amin, who, after telling the truth, is facing a felony count of disorderly conduct.

Let's take stock of this situation. All over the news are stories of men with Muslim names and/or appearances facing arrest or at least harassment and delay due to suspicion that they are attempting to explode airplanes. So what does this guy do when facing the embarrassment of his mother knowing that he needs some, er, help? He instead tells the authorities, with his mother listening, that he is carrying an explosive device.

This tells us two things about Mr. Amin. First, he apparently comes from a culture where it's more shameful within one's own family to need assistance in the bedroom then to be carrying live ordnance on an airplane. Second, he is really stupid to have not thought of a better lie. Of course, if his mother is as dumb as he is, she probably cannot read the news story that reported her son's problem to the entire world.

UPDATE: Mrs. Zwicker raised a good question-Why was it so necessary for Amin to carry the pump on the plane as opposed to checking it with his luggage?