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3 Northwest airlines employees breach airport security to prove a point.

I must admit, considering how lax airports seemed to be, back as a crazy teenager I was always tempted to smuggle stoopid stuff just past the sensors to prove a point too, but of course my sense would get the better of me. Plus, reporters used to do it too, every once in a while. However, nothing ever seemed to come of it.

Once though, I had this stone container which was bringing back from overseas, maybe about 25 cm high and 15 wide and fairly thick walls. My guess is that on X-ray it'd be hard, if not impossible, to see inside. I put it through the machine, but I don't anyone was even looking so even if the X-ray machine could penetrate its walls, it would have been irrelevant. Never once was I asked to open it, on the ground or on the plane (too late). This was after one international flight and one domestic flight (Canada).
 
That pisses me off that somehow the machines can detect my small bel-buckle - and they make me take off my belt - but these people can sneak knives on board. ARG!
 
well, in nyc, there was at least one person who had a fake pilot's id and was arrested. so some of the increased security efforts are working.
 
Yup, they will lose thier jobs over that. What is to stop the general public from using the excuse 'heh, I was just testing the security" when they get busted with weapons.
 
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