Whilst I can’t condone the girl for her dumb remark, you have to wonder about a security system that can’t see the difference between an actual terrorist threat and a 21 year old girl taking the ****.
I don’t think there’s ever been a terrorist airport threat where the perpetrator has been daft enough to try and walk through a security cordon whilst gleefully announcing the deadly contents of his/her rucksack.
As ever with these stories, I imagine the girl’s remarks were taken as gospel by a “text book” security process. I’ve already said, she should have known better, but I suspect that “knowing better” is a lesson the security forces should learn as well ?
Wasn’t it just last week when a girl with a heated biker jacket was removed from a Delta flight at CDG because of a protruding wire ? She wasn’t even on the plane but it was still escorted over the NY coastline by F-16’s.
I may be speaking out of turn, and respect to those involved in the whole post 9/11 situation, but I think paranoia may becoming a little bit as much of a problem as actual terrorism, or are they part and parcel ?
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