First Bras, Now Bacon: Breakfast Meat Triggers Alarm
Travel Blog • Valerie Conners • 08.27.08 | 4:08 PM ET
I can almost imagine how giant underwire bras might prompt an airport security brouhaha, but now bacon—that most innocuous of breakfast meats—has reportedly done it? Oh, the humanity!
Security screeners at an Austrian airport thought they had cause for alarm when scanning a man’s bacon-filled bag, the Austrian news site Nachrichten reports.
The screeners can hardly be blamed. According to a mysterious “official” quoted in the story, bacon has the same molecular density as dynamite and caused airport alarms to be triggered. The man and his meat were properly inspected, found harmless, and released. (via Gadling)
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* ‘Large Underwire Bra’ Triggers Metal Detector, Woman’s Wrath
Photo by shawnzam via Flickr (Creative Commons).
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Valerie Conners is the senior producer and editor at World Hum.
Terry Ward 08.27.08 | 6:03 PM ET
I recently had a tube of cinnamon rolls confiscated at MIA. They canned dough was deemed a gel by a very stern TSA guy there, even though they’d made it aboard the flight from Tampa to Miami unnoticed. The tube of Pillsbury’s best were snatched from my backpack and promptly tossed in the garbage bin. I was happy to find out later that only one of my rolls of rolls had been intercepted. The other tube made it all the way to Hamburg with me, and eating them there tasted something like revenge.