Heck, I think of a few Christmasses ago when Margie's broken ankle meant she was in a cast, which swiped as positive for explosives when we went through the TSA checkpoint at DIA. I remember how resistant we were to having them remove the strap-on cast because her doctor had instructed against it, until we finally got through to the doctor's office to get it okayed. And I wonder — if we'd been a bit more brown, or had an odd name, or if the cast had not tested negative on re-sampling as mysteriously as it as it tested positive … what would the rest of our day looked like?
Don’t Fly During Ramadan
A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time…
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I had a coworker on his way to work several years ago test positive for explosives on his lunchbox. The same one he'd been carrying for a year. The same one he'd carried through the day before.
They futzed around with him and his lunchbox for 2.5 hours, testing positive after positive, question after question, until they FINALLY thought to test it on a second machine.
BING Tested Negative.
"Oh. We're going to take that machine out of service. Have a nice day, sir."
Seems like about 80% of the flights I've been on my CPAP machine tests positive first time through.
Well duh +The Bruce, Mile High , Bruce is Muslim for terrorist.
(Yes, part of the joke is the implication I don't understand that Muslim is a religion)