Showing posts with label Airport Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airport Security. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2026

Now I Need This Shirt

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The only downside to the entire trip was the very close encounter with TSA. I mean a very, very, close encounter. I have to do the body scan...
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Monday, January 26, 2026

Car Rams Into Detroit Metro Check-In Counter

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On Friday, a driver rammed his car the check-in area at Detorit Metro Airport. The Detroit Free Press:   Car crashes through Detroit Metro A...
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Friday, June 21, 2019

Just A Passenger Ahead Of His Time On Security Screening Technique

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You know how some wags suggested that TSA would soon require everyone to disrobe before getting on an aircraft? Sumdood decided to put this...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Now, Stop Doing That!

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Click On Detroit: TSA finds 2 firearms in carry-on luggage at Detroit Metro Airport Two firearms were found in separate instances Thursday...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Two Idiots Cause Escorts For Airplanes In The Past Two Weeks

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Two bomb threats caused two passenger jets to receive fighter escorts recently. The first on July 25, 2014, a flight from Toronto to Panama...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

TSA's Airport Security Theater - Now Keeping The Audience Riveted

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So some traveler leaves the secured area at Detroit Metro, apparently forgot something in the secured area and, instead of going through se...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Brussels Sprouts A Gigantic Hole In Airport Security

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European Airport Security at its finest - as gang masked and armed men cut a hole in a security fence, drive two vehicles onto the tarmac an...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Heading to an undisclosed location

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Blogging will be light. I can report that I have cleared security with my junk untouched. Both kids similarly got a walk. However, the f...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

At least the TSA can stop snakes from getting on a mother fricken plane

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It turns out the TSA body scanner can detect certain wiggly hidden objects: Findlaw: TSA: Man hid 7 snakes, 3 tortoises in his pants TSA s...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

How's that Airport Security Working Out for You?

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The Detroit Free Press: 12 airport employees charged in 2 drug smuggling rings and Details emerge in case of drug smuggling at Detroit Metr...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Yet another example of government competence in action, FAA department.

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FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft Yes, the FAA's registry system is so messed up, they don't know with certainty who owns over 1...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

American Muslim Council Claims Airport Scanners To be Un-Islamic

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Apparently they might stop terrorists so they're not halal: The Detroit Free Press: Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslims s...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Plea Deal Possible For NWA 253 bomber?

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The Detroit Free Press: Plea deal may be in works in bomb case Public defenders for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student, are engag...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Another Arab Disturbance On A Northwest Aircraft to Detroit

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This is becoming a troubling pattern. Flight 243, again a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit had four Saudi Arab males removed from ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Imam Elahi Is Upset That The US Will Scrutinize Travellers From Some Arab Countries

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Imam Elahi in his irregular column in the Detroit news Religion section, complains that the US is going to subject travellers from certain M...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Experts say terror watch lists have limited uses

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Especially when nobody running security reads them. (Thanks for the headline, Detroit News )
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Arab pulled off Detroit bound flight after threatening to kill Jews

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In yet another Detroit-bound Northwest airlines incident, a man was removed from a flight after uttering threats. The Detroit News: Witnesse...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Slovak mistake almost turns man into a cancelled Czech.

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Slovak Officials Admit Planting Explosives on Innocent Flier in Security Test Slovak officials on Wednesday blamed "a silly and unprofe...