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"Alfred Molon" wrote in message ... Did it occur to you that this could be a troll ? -- I hope so. Or it is a very sad traveller who worries about this. In my backpacking days many travellers would have been delighted to get free drug donations |
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"Steve Bougerolle" wrote in message news On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:57:07 +0000, Spehro Pefhany wrote: I did hear of a very nasty (pre-9/11) prank where a thin piece of metal was slipped into someone's bag. It had a "gun" shaped outline so it showed up on airport x-ray machines but was very hard to find. This apparently goes on regularly - airline security staff test the system every now and then by sticking fake guns in people's luggage and waiting to see if anybody notices. A couple months ago there was a news story about it when they missed taking one out again on the other end and the passenger was shocked to find this gun in his bags. Wonder how they open people's bags without them noticing? If this is true it sounds very risky - what if a passenger sees this happen and attacks and hurts/kills the security personnel? Some more advanced scanners have an in-built system (called TIP, Threat Image Projection on a machine I know of) which occasionally show the image of a gun, bomb, etc - if the operator does not respond they are not paying attention and alarms go off. |
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