Since 9/11 every year has brought us new and more absurd regulations from the TSA . The one time I got on an airplane and took a flight was Christmas 2005. The procedure than was not nearly as harrowing and invasive as it is now, but I did get to experience the royal treatment. After removing my shoes, belt and jewelry, I placed my bags on the conveyor and stepped through the metal detector. BEEP! Looked through my pockets and found a gum wrapper and a dime. Tried it again. BEEP! I knew this was going to get bad. The security person tol…
A Nigerian man with supposed ties to Al-Qaeda was subdued by passengers and subsequently arrested by police after the bomb he brought on board the flight failed to detonate properly. Northwest flight 253 was headed to Detroit from Amsterdam when the suspect Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, an engineering student from London attempted to detonate a homemade explosive device just before touchdown at Detroit Wayne County Airport . The device ignited, but did not explode. Passengers and crew who witnessed the incident quickly subdued the man. The s…
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