Jon Sopel on Twitter: "US Secret Service on Mall have just confiscated my colleague's banana cos it hadn't been chopped into pieces. #Inauguration #tightsecurity"

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1. GOsborneGenius‏ @GOsborneGenius 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  They let you keep your gun?
  
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1. Giselle Green‏ @GiselleG7 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  was he brandishing it aggressively like this?pic.twitter.com/QARMh0L1M3
  
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1. DK‏ @ManOfRust 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @BBCWorld Looked like genitalia. New Administration likes to grab genitalia...
  
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1. F. Fertless‏ @joebrowncoat 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  Maybe the officer was just hungry . . .
  
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1. nosoup4u72‏ @nosoup4u72 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @BBCWorldpic.twitter.com/Kc5JkFa1wc
  
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1. S1mpl3_N0m4d‏ @NationOfJason 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  ..even though having a chopped banana could be seen as evidence of possible possession of a knife? Wonderful pRezident incoming
  
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1. Chucky‏ @AlexandriaboyVA 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @juliakbrou A Banana Republic demands Banana Security theater
  
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1. Nate Smith‏ @BurlosArmy 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  #MakeFruitSaladGreatAgain
  
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1. Peter Kirkham‏ @Peter_Kirkham 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @TomJHarper So US banana rules are even dafter than the (largely imaginary) EU ones...
  
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1. Doris Murdock‏ @DorisMurdock 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel @BBCWorld
  
  So many comic ripostes possible-will hold off
  
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1. Peter Denston‏ @PeterDenston 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel @BBCWorld
  
  Dangerous things banana skins. Donald might slip up
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1. JK‏ @imnotspartacus 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  TOSSERS!!!!!!!!!
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1. Bernadette Moore‏ @bernie1651 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  Banana split then??? So ridiculous!!
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1. Memuneh‏ @MemunehMichael 20 Jan 2017
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  If you knew anything about plastic explosives, you'd understand better.
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1. The semester ended WHEN????‏ @bcrosbie 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  look out! He's got a banana!!!!
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1. Michelle‏ @mickidifranco 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @fiona_mckinnon you've pretty much opened yourselves to ridicule now! pic.twitter.com/PtMfDjDEQ5
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1. Silver Sage‏ @Hawkins110grn 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @BBCWorld Get it right next time or leave your banana home.
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1. B. Scrivener‏ @BScruvener 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  @BBCWorld May have been EU police, what size was the banana?
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1. joe buck‏ @lesserjoe 20 Jan 2017
  Replying to @BBCJonSopel
  
  seinfelfian Who would not like a banana at a Presidential Inauguration?
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