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TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found
OverTheGeicoE writes "A group of students and a professor were detained by TSA at Dallas' Love Field. Several of them were led away in handcuffs. What did they do wrong? One of them left a robotic science experiment behind on an aircraft, which panicked a boarding flight crew. The experiment 'looked like a cell phone attached to a remote control car with some exposed wires protruding.' Of course, the false alarm inconvenienced more than the traveling academics. The airport was temporarily shut down and multiple gates were evacuated, causing flight delays and diversions."
Thanks, SCOTUS.
They grounded us with science...
Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the Arabian sea .... Osama Bin Laden is laughing his ass off. His face is shot so that is the only thing he got left to laugh with.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Obviously the OP did not find the experiment worthy of the term "science project". Maybe he thinks he could do a much better one?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Look at the bright side. They probably got their robot back. If it wasn't for the TSA, they'd never have seen it again!
That would clearly violate the TSAs guidelines on logic and sanity.
I just realized I'm forgetting one. That one guy... uh... what was his name... uh... thinking...it's on the tip of my tongue... can't quite remember... sorry, lost it. "Oops."
To illustrate to you how scared you should be of "science projects" and their ilk. They're not called "scare quotes" for no reason.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
pshaw, I've seen movies, kid, movies with explosive devices. They always look electronic and have exposed wires. Usually you cut the blue one.
That is hardly obligatory you muppet.
Heh, I got hauled into the back room in Vienna or Graz once.
They showed me a scan of my bag. Large round opaque item in the centre of the bag (the explosive charge, I suppose) with wires headed off to a 'control box' full of electronics, coils, etc.. Looked... fairly intelligent bomb like I suppose, if it was 1940.
The 'control unit' was an old tube radio I was bringing home, the 'charge' was a lead crystal ashtray (hence the opaque-ness), and the wires were headphone wires which just happened to run between them, on a different layer of clothes... I got a pretty good kick out of it.
I suppose if the TSA was smart enough to read the xrays, they'd probably have locked down the airport, were it in the US!
TSA hasn't caught a single terrorist in over a decade of existence. The fact that they are still getting (increased) funding is hard to imagine.
That means it's working!
None of us know everything. Therefore we're all naïve.
Very true! I believe that life begins with ejaculation! Every one of you masturbators is a mass murderer!
Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Isn't a Dunkin Donuts bag the first place a cop would look?