[Guest post by DRJ]
From Orin Kerr: Slovak authorities put “real explosives in the luggage of innocent passengers as part of a security test.”
Authorities found 7 out of the 8 test samples but failed to warn the 8th passenger, who found out the hard way when he was arrested upon his return to Dublin.
— DRJ
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who thinks like that? terrorist people wouldn’t act more innocent than innocent people so there’s no reason they needed innocent people. They should buy that guy a really nice dinner. Someplace not Irish.
happyfeet (e9e587) — 1/5/2010 @ 8:58 pmsucks to be him….. and now we are reminded, yet again, of why the Founding Fathers didn’t trust established governments without citizen oversight.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 1/5/2010 @ 9:22 pmNice. I bet that will be real easy to explain on a background investigation. “Sir, I was arrested but I didn’t do anything wrong, I swear!”
Pat (92a7a7) — 1/5/2010 @ 9:43 pmWhat a drag for him. I had a great time in Bratislava last month, but I guess I am glad that I didn’t fly in or out of that airport.
JVW (8704f2) — 1/5/2010 @ 9:54 pmI think they should mail him decent size check for his trouble. Maybe a year’s salary of the guy they sacked for the screwup.
Kevin Murphy (3c3db0) — 1/5/2010 @ 10:08 pmWould they slip it in to locked checked in luggage?
wherestherum (d413fd) — 1/5/2010 @ 10:31 pmIt’s like that old SNL sketch with John Belushi – “The luck of the Irish? Let’s talk about the unluck of the Irish; let’s talk about the bad luck of the Irish…”
Leviticus (30ac20) — 1/6/2010 @ 12:47 amPotato Famine!
Leviticus (30ac20) — 1/6/2010 @ 12:48 amWell, Slovakia does border Poland.
nk (df76d4) — 1/6/2010 @ 4:39 am[…] here: Irish Passenger is Lucky No. 8 […]
Irish Passenger is Lucky No. 8 | Liberal Whoppers (d16888) — 1/6/2010 @ 4:13 pmHey, at least they arrested the guy with the bomb. The system worked!
Xrlq (1cd5bb) — 1/6/2010 @ 5:48 pmIt’s a good thing he wasn’t flying through LAX; they’re so bad at finding this stuff, he probably would have blown up his hotel room when unpacking.
AD - RtR/OS! (b6fff3) — 1/6/2010 @ 5:55 pmAD, from reading the story, I got the impression that the Irish passenger did make it home with the explosives.
SPQR (26be8b) — 1/6/2010 @ 6:01 pmSPQR you are correct. Not only did he make it home, he had the explosives in his apartment for 2 or 3 days. Slovakian authorities eventually informed the Irish police…
Little Banana (b6e81d) — 1/7/2010 @ 2:43 pm