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Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport

Posted by timothy on from the rogue-toothbrush-sounds-scarier dept.

McGruber writes "The big buzz for travelers today is the story of how a scary toothbrush prompted the closure of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport: 'Airport officials told Channel 2 Action News that an electric toothbrush began vibrating inside a bag checked onto an AirTran flight, causing workers to alert airport officials to the strange noise.' The terminal and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) subway were both temporary closed 'out of an abundance of caution.' ATL has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs since 2005."

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  1. Re:well done. by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 1, Troll

    religion flies planes into buildings.
    science flies men into space.
    (and fruit flies love bananas).

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  2. Re:well done. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, people fly planes into buildings, people fly ships into space, and people do a great number of other things. What separates the ones flying planes into buildings from the ones flying spaceships is that the first group is crazy in a bad way, and being crazy in a bad way is wholly independent of religion.

    For instance, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, identified his religion as science and claimed to be agnostic, the crusaders identified as Christian, and the 9/11 terrorists identified as Islamic (quick note: I'm not suggesting that science is a religion; rather, I'm suggesting that crazy acts can be perpetuated by someone regardless of their claimed religion or lack thereof). The most you could say is that certain religions attract that sort of crazy more often than others.

    Fascinating. When McVeigh was "executed", it was widely reported that no "Autopsy" of his "dead" body was performed "because of religious grounds."

    More proof that Oklahoma City was faked, and that "Terrorist" Timothy McVeigh had nothing to do with it (other than to play his part in a Psyops road-show). (Remember that other story about how he was "captured" while "driving out of town" in a car "with no license plate."?)