Your Security Is In The Very Best Of Hands

The fellow that placed the package, didn't remove it because he got busy.
I would suggest that his employer help him with his busyness.
Fire him.

He, apparently, was so busy NOT doing his job he didn't have time to DO his job.

It reminds me of an old saying by Raif Mair-"we make a big mistake in thinking that those in charge actually know what they are doing".

This applies to EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT WORKER ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. PERIOD!!!

Ya gets what ya pays for...here, the first line of defense is still paid minimum wage (I believe).

Lets keep the test's objective in mind here; to test the DOGS' abilities. The dogs could care less if the bags actually were loaded onto the plane. There's absolutely NO reason security personnel couldn't have walked the test luggage through the process...obviously not in combat gear, carrying weapons, and recovered the well marked "TEST" bags before being loaded aboard. (Since dogs apparently don't distinguish colours, the bags could be bright yellow.)
Bonus: the baggage handlers would be learning how to handle luggage gently...or at least the bright yellow ones. ;)

Stefan Gonda is probably going to have a lot more inconvenience from being entered into suspect lists all over the world.
It's the way bureaucracies work.
Messing with his private luggage was just wrong.

"Slovak officials said they attached two caches of explosives onto the outside of one man's bag.

The sniffer dog found one explosive, but the police officer in charge failed to remove the second, which was not detected by the dog, from the bag because he was busy, the Slovakian Interior Ministry statement said."

I don't see why they would attach 2 explosives to one bag.
I also don't think it was the dogs fault if the dog indicated the one bag with 2 explosives.
It was the security officers fault for not finding both explosives.

Don't blame the dog.

On the bright side, the poor schlep who's luggage the screwed with didn't end up with a group cavity search followed by some bad cop worse cop interrogation. Mind you, if I were him I'd get new luggage. Who knows how long the scent will hang around.

They call them 'mules' and this is a very serious problem these days. There is a very real war on traveling going on, people's mobility is under attack.

All this BS with airport security has me convinced; I shall never fly again, unless it's in a Cessna with a good old Canadian bush pilot that I know personally.

If I want to visit Europe or Asia, think I'll swim,it's probably safer.

Call me a nervous flyer.

Kate: I know this is off-topic, but I was wondering if this CBC poll was of interest to your readers. I have already voted, but at this point in the survey, I'm definitely in the minority.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2010/01/prorogued-parliament-should-it-have-happened.html

i know who i'm going to blame the next time someone catches me with hashish in the dublin airport

I feel sorry for the poor fellow pegged for this experiment. He doesn't deserve to be put on a list because someone wanted to prove a point.
That being said, machines can only take you so far. The rest is the human element and, unfortunately, it's plagued with another element- stupidity.

It's better to fail a test than have no test at all. Security protocol will be refined, leaks plugged, and we will hopefully be safer.

Hmmmm was this the only government run "security test" that went horribly wrong?
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html
Investment tip for 2010: don't buy airline stock. With all the government foul ups and demeaning security checks, lots of folks will go back to alternative transport.

O's now made enemies of the black Muslims and the six counts will infuriate the street. Watch for it.
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"US charges Nigerian suspect over plane bomb plot
BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
A US grand jury has indicted Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on six counts over an alleged plot to bomb a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day."

Why do I get this image in my mind of the Three Stooges dressed up security uniforms?

To quote Stephen Leacock:
"God looks after fools, drunks and the United States of America."

The old maxim: Always carry your own bomb aboard because the probability of two bombs on a plane is infinitesimal.

The old maxim corollary: The more security employed to prevent you carrying your own bomb aboard, the greater probability that there is a bomb.

Elementary risk management requires that systems be tested regularly. It is good that somwebody is testing. The way they are doing it smacks of amateur hour. Moe, Curly & Shep would do a great sketch of this.

"Irish security experts" said blah, blah, ..........

You can only train a dog on the real material. That was something brought to light when a costly program to train "cadaver dogs" to help improve search methods for buried murder victims went south because the squeamish Einsteins in charge decided well rotted buried pig carcasses would work as fill ins. Then everyone was puzzled when the dogs were useless when it came to finding dead people. Great help in quickly locating buried pigs tho.

Given all that has happened with airport security lately I have concluded that one doesn't need to have become a member of the Mensa society to be employed in that field.

I'm flying this week-end and that thought gives me not comfort.

With reference to my previous post it gives me even less comfort knowing that the POTUS - no, make that TOTUS - is even less intellectual in these matters given his incredibly stupid posture that these terrorist bastards have to be tried in the US criminal courts rather than handed over to the military.

The old saying that you get the government you deserve is greatly contradicted by this A-hole. Americans deserve much better.

Dave H. why would you take part in a CBC poll, you know darned well that the outcome will be skewed.

Antenor; ALL SDA readers need to take part in CBC polls...vote early and vote often, as the saying goes. Skewing the outcome IS the point! ;)

And not far away, the natives are restless...
http://sheikyermami.com/2010/01/07/bosnian-wahhabis-aim-for-additional-base/
...again!

At Regina International Airport there is a display in the lounge area which everyone about to go through security must pass: a large, clear plastic box containing approximately 100 tubes of toothpaste confiscated from passengers pre-boarding. (Crest seems to be the most popular). The sign says that the toothpaste has been confiscated over a seven day period.
If this stuff is dangerous enough to confiscate from travellers, shouldn't it be removed from the public area and disposed of safely?

Profiling works in Halifax, http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1161044.html

But look close at the picture, she's wearing makeup, which is hareem.

No paradise for that girl.

"The sign says that the toothpaste has been confiscated over a seven day period.
If this stuff is dangerous enough to confiscate from travellers, shouldn't it be removed from the public area and disposed of safely?"

I bet the Crest corporation just loves the fact their product is contraband by ATS. Guaranteed repeat sales. Hell if I was a personal hygiene product manufacturer I'd top off Obama's election fund if he got my product on the no fly list. LOL

A little juxtaposition:

How to Recognize and Fight a Terrorist on a Plane
Advice from a pilot;

...the pilot of the airplane decided to fly to Dublin anyway...