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Man Walks Past Security Screening Staring At iPad, Causing Airport Evacuation

Posted by samzenpus on from the paying-attention dept.

First time accepted submitter chentiangemalc writes While Australia is on "high alert" for terror threats a man walked past a Sydney Airport security screening while engrossed in his iPad and delayed flights for an hour. From the article: "This event was captured on CCTV and unnerved officials so much that they evacuated passengers. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, the man found himself (or, perhaps, didn't) going into the terminal through an exit passage that clearly was convenient for him, but less convenient for the hordes of passengers who not only had to be removed from Terminal 3, but also re-screened. A spokeswoman for Qantas told the Morning Herald: 'The man disembarked a flight and left. It appears he wasn't paying attention, was looking at his iPad, forgot something and walked back past (the security area).'"

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  1. Re:2 categories of dumbass by mjwx · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. iPad Man, for not actually paying attention to his surroundings.

    2. Airport security (obviously) for freaking out over the oblivious iPad Man.

    Nope, the full extent of the dumbarsery is entirely on number 1.

    He was walking in the opposite direction to everyone else and in order for the doors at to be open somoene had to be walking the right way (at an airport, this would likely be dozens of other people). If he didn't notice this, he is the idiot.

    The AFP (Australian Federal Police) who secure our airports cant take chances. They cant tell whether dumb Ipad man is just Dumb Ipad man or Disgruntled Steve who wants to beat up Bill in the airside cafe until they talk to him. Now the AFP did just that and released the man without charge (they could have charged him, but under the circumstances they chose not to), so good on them for that but it is a real shame that this kind of idiocy isn't a crime... or painful.

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  2. Sigh, mods on crack again. by mjwx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who modded this Troll? I pointed out that Ipad man did something incredibly and all the AFP did was the job they're meant to do.

    The guy was released without charge, although I reiterate it's a shame stupidity like this isn't painful.

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