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Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers
Entropy98 writes "Slovakian Police have planted explosives on 8 unsuspecting air travelers. Seven were stopped by airport security, including one man arrested and held upon arriving at a Dublin airport. Unbelievably, one innocent traveler made it home with 90 grams of explosives, and had his flat surrounded by the police and bomb squad."
To the Slovakian Minister of the Interior,
I wish to express profound regret on the part of the US for failing to categorize and properly label DVDs obviously sold to your country. Odd as it may seem, the "Police Academy" video series was never intended as instructional.
Sincerest apologies,
I. M. Spending
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They must have had CIA assistance.
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TFA doesn't explain why the explosives were planted. One obvious reason is to test security but in that case you would have a "wicket keeper" to catch the undetected explosives.
It may just be bad English or a translation error, but the Slovakian Police were quoted as saying "Someone set us up the bomb".
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I'm not that surprised it got through. About 15 years ago a friend's brother inadvertently traveled through at least six airports with a WW2 grenade casing (explosive core removed) in his luggage, courtesy of one of his drunk friends hiding it in there as a joke. He only found it when he unpacked after getting back home from his travels. Sure there were no explosives so it wouldn't set of a chemical detector, but you'd have thought the X-Ray operators might have raised their eyebrows at something clearly grenade-shaped..
Could this be another Police test gone awry ?
"Huge" quantities of cocaine delivered to supermarkets in Spain hidden in boxes of bananas.
I hope they at least chose non-smokers.
Give you communion and call you a patriot.
You are welcome on my lawn.
How about we realize that we are far more likely to be killed by our car or the food we eat then by terrorists?
I don't understand - if you're killed by your car or food, aren't you already dead? How is a terrorist supposed to kill you if you've already been killed by your car or food?
Ok, a bit of karma whoring, but couldn't keep from telling that someone has already tested the fails in airport security:Reporters Expose Airport Security Lapses By Blowing Up Plane
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Even if you do win, you probably wouldn't like how they "settle their debts".
What, they sneak the check into my back pocket when I'm not looking?
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I'd be more afraid of a cargo ship full of zombies sailing into NY harbor than a nuke in NYC. Simply more awesome.
There, fixed that for you.
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