Woman Arrested for Carrying a Concealed Bookmark

A Tampa television station is reporting a story about a Maryland woman who was hauled off to jail in handcuffs for carrying a "concealed weapon:"

Kathryn Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Fla., airport found her bookmark. It's an 8.5-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end.

Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.

Thankfully, local officials had an epiphany and declined to prosecute the poor woman.