Re: LaGuardia terminal reopens after bomb sniffer cries wolf

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Richard M. Smith wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060310/ts_nm/security_laguardia_dc 
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines' domestic terminal at LaGuardia Airport
> was evacuated for about two hours on Friday because of a security scare,
> officials said. 
>
> A spokeswoman from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration in
> Washington said departing flights had resumed at about 5 p.m. (2200 GMT)
> after the alert turned out to be a false alarm triggered when a man's shoes
> set off a security screening device meant to detect explosives.
>
> The TSA said the man walked away from the checkpoint at about 3 p.m. (2000
> GMT), apparently unaware that his shoes had set off an alarm. The man was
> not located but the alert proved to be a false alarm.
 
So the explosives detector said "This man is carrying explosives", and 
everyone was so security-conscious that they just let him walk away. I 
have to wonder why they bother with the explosives detector.

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