Golden Girl causes terrorist scare in Boston

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur sparked a security scare at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier this week when she tried to board a flight with a pocket knife in her handbag.

The actress, 81, was about to board a Cape Air flight when a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent discovered the offensive article in her belongings, which is strictly forbidden on airplanes since the September 11th attacks.

A fellow passenger say:, "She started yelling that it wasn't hers and said: 'The terrorists put it there'. She kept yelling about the 'terrorists, the terrorists, the terrorists'."

After the knife was confiscated by TSA officials, the funnywoman pulled out a keyring from her bag and told the agent it belonged to the "terrorists", before throwing it at them.

As she boarded the plane, the Emmy-winning star told the TSA employees:

"We're all doomed."

A spokeswoman for Cape Air says: "Ms Arthur was cracking jokes and was a real character."