Monday, March 28, 2005
 
Timely Insight

Gun scare closes part of Cincinnati airport:
    Part of Cincinnati's main airport was temporarily shut down Sunday after a passenger passed through a security checkpoint with what appeared to be a gun in a carryon bag, authorities said.

    Baggage screeners noticed an X-ray image that resembled a gun after the passenger had picked up the bag and left the checkpoint, said Christopher White, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman in Atlanta.
To rectify the situation, the TSA closed the airport and searched everyone beyond the checkpoint again.

Were this a novel, movie, or an actual plot, the bad guy would have stashed the gun somewhere beyond the checkpoint for an accomplice to retrieve later. Instead, it's an example of befuddled TSA grunts closing down an airport because they couldn't watch the X-rays in real time.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin comments and suspects it was a real gun.


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:16 AM
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