***TW – Extreme Incompetence ***
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority are on eternally vigilant for dread items such as this:
or this:
Obviously items depicted above are a clear and present danger to yourself, your fellow passengers, the airplane, and Western Civilization(!). Trying to get either types of these items past airport security gets you this:
YOU SHALL NOT PASS !!!
Recently though, at the Edmonton International Airport someone decided to bring another item in carry on luggage. It looked like this:
This is the security photo from the Edmonton Airport. Observe cylindrical object on left.
Let’s get another view of said item.
Hmmm. Smells like a pipe bomb to me.
Our intrepid CATSA security screeners responded like this:
CATSA AGENT – Lol Whut? It’s only a pipe bomb. Carry on with your flight sir, oh AND DID YOU WANT YOUR PIPE BOMB BACK?
Thankfully, the passenger in question, did not want his pipe bomb back and insisted, to the properly mollified airport screeners, that the pipe bomb should remain in the hands of airport security. Our watchful guardians then sat on the pipe bomb for four days before they notified the police (RCMP).
This story broke and everyone who has heard it since has been like this:
WHAT THE F*CK?
I have nothing really more to say on the subject as my mind is blown. If you’d like the full story, please see these three CBC articles linked below detailing how a dude brought a pipe bomb to the Edmonton Airport, got caught in airport security, had security GIVE THE PIPE BOMB BACK, and then have him insist they take it, and then board his flight despite having brought a bomb in his carry-on luggage.
I heard he had a great vacation.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
2 comments
January 18, 2014 at 11:49 am
rww
But if they used actual properly screened and trained government employees rather than rent a cops they would have to pay them decent wages with benefits and that destroys jobs.
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January 18, 2014 at 11:58 am
The Arbourist
@RWW
Properly trained? Good Wages? What is this sorcery you speak of? We want to look like we have good security, not actually have good security.
Sheesh :)
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