Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Patting yourself on the back for spotting the obvious

What would happen if you took a small bag of cocaine, lets say a 2"x1" baggy of the white stuff, and taped it to your inner thigh, or in your armpit, wore regular clothes, and tried to get on a plane and take a flight to another state in the USA.

Likely, you don't think you'd get away with it. Some kind of sensor would go off, a klaxon would flash, and wave after wave of drug dogs would charge you, right?

Well maybe not.

Apparently this man tried to smuggle four pounds of cocaine in his pants. He wore bicycle shorts with the cocaine taped to them, and wore some oversized pants over them. The TSA security person used his/her heightened sensory skills, and superhuman alertness to determine that the man was wearing baggy pants. They patted him down, and every local news outlet patted them on the back.

I've gone through that exact same airport, wearing my baggy pants, and usually a large fleece jacket without so much as a second glance. If I were John Wayne airport, I'd probably downplay the fact that post 9-11 technology that caught this was a pair of eyes that belonged to a TSA agent...

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