The blades were inside the shoes that were in a passenger's carry-on bag.
The shoes were seized Tuesday.
The TSA officer who was staffing the x-ray machine at the checkpoint spotted what appeared to be two pieces of box cutter-type blades in a passenger's carry-on bag. During the bag check, the items were removed from the bag and x-rayed separately. That's when they figured out the blades were inside a pair of shoes.
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7 comments:
That's gotta hurt.
Quote "Blades seem to be Manufactured Into the Sole? And paasanger was.allowed to catch his flight?" Really? Does it mean the New Balance makes sneakers with blades inside the soles? No way. Something smells very fishy there.
A false flag to prove all the invasive searching is worth it. Not buying it.
A news article to say they found nothing of any note. The TSA is the biggest waste of time and money, and they know it. These kind of "press releases" only further prove the point. Have they ever actually caught any legitimate threats?
If those blades weren't all old and rusty, I'd think that this was a drill and propaganda....especially when the passenger was allowed to proceed. But those things were obviously not put there recently. Those shoes are starting to fall apart, and have obviously been soaked more than once.
Crazy industrial things do happen. If these fell into a vat of that rubbery sole stuff, I could see it getting through an extruder into a mold. Nobody's going to throw out an entire vat of goo or stop an expensive assembly line for something like this.
The passenger was allowed to catch his flight.
And this is why it's all a big joke, Hype, to upset passengers into thinking TSA is there to help.
Imagine that. Something actually worked.
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