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Just In Time to Jam Up The Summer Travel Season: Possible Terrorist Attack ‘Dry Runs’

Posted in News by Dan at 12:10 pm
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With a block of cheese and a watch, the TSA has begun to alert all airports that there could be possible terrorist dry run in the works to desensitize screeners and to see what will pass airport security.

In one case last September, a couple in Baltimore, Maryland, checked a plastic bag with a block of processed cheese taped to another plastic bag containing a cell phone charger. Earlier this month in San Diego, California, a passenger checked a bag containing two ice packs covered in duct tape. The ice packs had clay in them instead of the normal blue gel.

Terrorists could be testing the system, or could be conducting repeated operations to desensitize security officials, the bulletin says.

“The unusual nature and increase in number of these improvised items raise concern, and TSA personnel should continue vigilance for groupings of ordinary items that look like IED (Improvised Explosive Device) components,” the bulletin says.

Guess this will make it considerably more difficult to bring DIY electronics on a plane.

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2 Responses to “Just In Time to Jam Up The Summer Travel Season: Possible Terrorist Attack ‘Dry Runs’”

  1. chad says:

    who hasn’t checked in a block of cheese with a cell phone charger taped to it?!

    the other stuff however is creepy.

    every person that checks in cheese with wires or packs of ice filled with clay should be beaten with their own belt (buckle first) just for being retarded.

  2. Matt says:

    They just need an excuse to go through everything and here we have it.

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