Posted on 07/26/2007 10:23:03 AM PDT by Vintage1
Busy day today for these odd news, Houston terminal had an odd odor, slowed things down, but nothing found.
I’ve found that your rental car dollars will go much further at LAX than at Long Beach. Go figure.
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]
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.
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