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Airport security in Australia was on the ball<\/a> for this one:<\/p>\n

An emergency was declared at the airport in Mackay, 500 miles north of Brisbane in tropical Queensland state, after airport staff heard a strange noise coming from the bin, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“It was rather disconcerting when the rubbish bin started humming furiously,” cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant said.<\/p>\n

Police evacuated the terminal and were about to call in bomb experts when an unidentified passenger came forward to identify the contents of a package left in the bin.<\/p>\n

I’m sure John Ashcroft would be suitably appalled and call for a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Airport security in Australia was on the ball for this one: An emergency was declared at the airport in Mackay, 500 miles north of Brisbane in tropical Queensland state, after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20781,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/this-is-a-drill.html","url_meta":{"origin":6246,"position":0},"title":"This Is a Drill","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Apr-11 9:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kinda cool\/scary email from my city councilman: Loud Noise and Traffic Disruptions On 20 April, there will be an emergency services drill at Centennial Airport that will test the ability of the airport to handle a huge incident in another city that will send many patients to hospitals in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24731,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/step-away-from-the-jam.html","url_meta":{"origin":6246,"position":1},"title":"Step … away … from the jam","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Dec-11 3:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, I feel much safer knowing that, instead of being on my plane, that Potentially Explosive Jam is sitting in a trash bin by the security line with all the other Potentially Explosive Items. 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