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Long Beach Airport Main Terminal Evacuated
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5513279 ^

Posted on 07/26/2007 10:23:03 AM PDT by Vintage1

Another abandoned backpack I'm guessing. Feel free to pull this - as I'm sure we're now averaging several of these a day.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; bombscare; evacuation; lgb; longbeach; tsa
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To: Calpernia

Busy day today for these odd news, Houston terminal had an odd odor, slowed things down, but nothing found.


41 posted on 07/26/2007 9:28:43 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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To: Vintage1
Probably another block of cheese and some wire. Ho hum.


42 posted on 07/26/2007 10:35:44 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: Napoleon Solo

I’ve found that your rental car dollars will go much further at LAX than at Long Beach. Go figure.


43 posted on 07/27/2007 5:23:52 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: jacquej; Vintage1; lexington minuteman 1775; Chicos_Bail_Bonds; Restore; NavyCanDo; ...
Just came across this:

Suspicious 'game board' causes airport evacuation

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A suspicious item found yesterday at Long Beach Airport, Calif. caused the terminal to be evacuated for about 90 minutes and left five aircraft stranded on the tarmac. The item, found in a checked bag, ended up being a "handheld game board." Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin says, "It certainly was nothing but it certainly looked like something. It had all the wires and components that you would see in an explosive device." The bomb squad was called to the airport -- but no word if they disposed of the nefarious device. Also, the adult passenger is "being interviewed."

We wonder if those TSA agents played the Airport Security game to train for their jobs. So, best suggestion on how to avoid a similar incident would probably be not to put your gaming devices together in your bag. A bundled up package of DS, games with cord could look like a bomb to the untrained eye TSA. Better safe than sorry, please wrap each component separately and keep your DS and/or PSP on your body at all times.

[Thanks Tacohead]

44 posted on 07/27/2007 1:45:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thank you for the update.

With all the alerts/threats that are going out these days, I would think that anything will odd, if not as expected.


45 posted on 07/27/2007 5:01:17 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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