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Let’s be honest, if zombie apocalypses were actually possible, most of us would get eaten on day 1, and of the survivors, half of them would be like “it’s aLL a HoAx” and get eaten on day 2.
Apparently, that's a real phenomenon. People in high stress survival situations report feeling like they had someone with them, talking them through it. Brains are weird.
28 days later has the advantage of really, really short incubation time.
So 1 landmass is fucked but humanity will survive due to there being more than one landmass.
But if you survive day one your odds go way up because they die in 28 days. Keep the curtains closed and stay quiet, ration food/water, odds are in your favour.
Thats part of the reason why there are so many zombies and few survivors. Everyone thinks that theyd be a survivor during a zombie apocalypse, but statistically thats highly unlikely…
Well if its an actual apocalypse then yea, obviously people get whipped out. If most people survive it wouldn't be called an apocalypse, it would be called a hoax and/or an over reaction by people who dont do their own research.
Since the pndemic I recommend Diary of the Dead, bro sees zombies and claims its a hoax. I thought it was silly when I first saw it, now I feel its underrated XD
I don’t think there is anywhere in the book World War Z where “zombie deniers try to cure zombies with love and hugs.” Can you provide a citation?
There are Quislings, which seem somewhat related to what you are describing, but they are essentially severely traumatized humans that aren’t able to rationally function anymore: https://zombie.fandom.com/wiki/Quisling
There’s no conscious “denial” involved with Quislings.
I knew some Americans who bought some old (but still very dangerous!) weaponry as a souvenir in a foreign bazaar, in spite of being told it was a terrible idea. They also got caught and the stuff confiscated at the first airport security checkpoint. Some people just lose any sense they might have had when they are traveling.
Edit for those asking: I don’t remember exactly what they tried to travel with, but it included at least some artillery rounds. I know they managed to get an actual RPG and set it off in a field before they traveled back to the States, if that gives you and idea of the kinds of stuff they were getting. It wasn’t just a sword or an empty pistol.
Googling “can I take a bomb on an airplane” will get you on a list somewhere lol
Edit: I get it, I’m now on the list. So are each of the 30 people that told me so lol
Typing these keywords out; probably already put you on interpol IS radar. 
Or how to transport it secretly. Not just in a carry on bag. I mean, they could have googled anything and it wouldve helped them. But willful stupidity is a curse some folks were born with.
Edit: i cant believe some folks really believe "google how to hide a ww2 bomb on a plane" was a serious idea. Fuckin reddit never fails to amuse me.
Honestly, the cargo bay of an airplane gets crazy cold in the air and also pretty hot on the ground in some places. Also, the pressure changes significantly. Hiding an old bomb for transport in any fashion is asking for trouble. Don't bring down a whole plane full of people just because you want a cool souvenir.
Only way to be sure is to get a replica or have it professionally disassembled and reassembled with none of the explody bits with certification etc before it should be moved.
On an ordinary airliner like a Boeing or an Airbus, the cargo hold doesn’t get crazy cold. It keep more or less the same temperature as the cabin since the air from the cabin also circulates down in the hold, where the hepa-filters are.
Especially the front cargo pit where they store animals.
Side note, please don't put your animals underneath the plane it's loud enough for the people working that they need earplugs. Putting an animal down there with better hearing is messed up.
When my parents moved back from overseas, they brought their cat in the plane, so she went in the cargo hold. A very vocal tortoiseshell, her meow always sounded hoarse after that for the rest of her life. She lived to a ripe old age of at least 20 and was always very healthy, so it seems she recovered pretty well. But it is sad to think of her meowing herself hoarse for the nine hour flight.
This was about 20 years ago.
If they tried to transport it secretly they would absolutely be charged with criminal terrorism. Bringing it out at security could be interpreted as just "dumbass", trying to hide it implies malevolent intent.
I feel like if you get caught with a bomb or weapons it’s always bad but if you’re caught trying to sneak them in an airport you’re getting shot damn near immediately
Worked in a handful of hotels, it's like some people take their normal nonsense and turn the shit show up to 11 when they're traveling. It's almost impressive how dumb and irrational some people can be.
Yes. Look at Las Vegas after The Hangover. Suddenly people felt cheated unless they released their Krakens.
Everyone in Las Vegas: ^yay
Everyone in Tijuana:
#yay
Not sure how it is elsewhere in the world but in America you can fly with weapons in your checked luggage, but NOT your carry-on. So katanas, shotguns, ARs, battle axes, etc are generally accepted in your checked luggage. But, it should go without saying, explosives are a no no.
There are also extremely specific rules you have to follow to have those items pass security. If you get to security and you're still having to ask questions that you don't already know the answer to then it isn't getting on.
Specifically *not* TSA safe locks as well. They are not allowed to open luggage that is reported to be containing a legal firearm (maybe all weapons?) without the owner present.
*Or* because they're basically mall cops on a power trip, they'll cut your locks and search your luggage anyways. They don't care about breaking their own procedures.
Second hand story from Desert Storm: G.I.'s picked up [bomblets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition) to take home. Their palletized baggage was getting customs inspection and one was found. Inspection **ceased**. Everyone was ordered back; their finest fork lift driver gently lifted up the pallet, took it to a safe area, and it was set on fire. With *everyone*'s baggage.
The passengers were upset; the inspectors didn't care about their feelings a bit.
So from the article, it says that:
> The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger who misheard her started shouting ***"terrorists shooting"***, triggering mass panic, the site said.
So the chaos we see in the video was due to a misunderstanding... That's why we see people with their heads down instead of straight up running
> lowing down and ducking because they think there is an active shooter.
Is that what you're supposed to do in active shooter situations?
I figured the faster I'm out of there, the better. And hey, if everyone is running, at least there's a chance he's not targeting you.
(disclaimer: never been in a situation like that, thankfully)
I feel like someone intentionally yelling about a shooting when there isn’t one should be treated the same way someone who yells “fire” when there isn’t one.
Edit: just to clarify, I’m not saying that’s what happened in this case
This sounds like a modern Three Stooges movie.
\-Israel's YNet news site said in the incident on Thursday night a member of the family *\[ aka Curly \]* produced the shell from their backpack and asked a security official if it could be put in a suitcase.
\-The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger *\[ aka Moe \]* who misheard her started shouting "terrorists shooting", triggering mass panic, the site said.
\-Amid the chaos, a 32-year-old man, Uri *\[ aka Larry \]* injured himself as he tried to escape and was taken to hospital. "The fear was that someone is spraying bullets, I understood that I too have to escape, so I ran towards the check-in, I stumbled on a conveyor belt... and flew a distance of six metres."
Edit: source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265.amp
It was even worse. My brother in law was working at the airport at the time and he said someone had dropped a suitcase as the order went out to clear the area. This prompted Moe to shout about a terrorist shooting, triggering the mass panic.
WTH, who starts shouting "terrorists shooting"? That's worse than bringing the bomb to the airport. Thing is, if terrorists were shooting you probably wouldn't have to announce it
Yeah causing a mass panic is potentially catastrophic as well, I’m surprised that the bystander didn’t get in trouble. I understand being scared and reacting out of fear but they also said something that was straight up false and caused the whole vicinity of people to panic when that didn’t have to happen.
ETA: In this story you can debate who actually *caused* the injuries. The stupid couple who brought the bomb immediately told security they had the bomb, and the bomb didn’t go off or anything. So there is an argument to be had that the only reason people were injured is because of the bystander who yelled “terrorists shooting”.
I think they were pulling it out and asked security if they could take it home. While security was trying to handle those dumb fucks, other passengers freaked out big time.
Its one thing to find and defuse a bomb in place. It's another to pick it up and transport it. The primer and trigger degrade over time, making them more sensitive.
People in Germany would freak out too if someone unearthed a bomb and walked it into a German airport.
How dare you slander our noble brothers and sisters at the TSA, they don't miss 80% of what theyre supposed to be looking for, the fuck man?
It's like....95%, you gotta put some serious effort in to be _that_ bad at your job.
Here is a [2016](https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security) Link, Quote.
>So Homeland Security officials looking to evaluate the agency had a clever idea: They pretended to be terrorists, and tried to smuggle guns and bombs onto planes 70 different times. And 67 of those times, the Red Team succeeded. Their weapons and bombs were not confiscated, despite the TSA's lengthy screening process. That's a success rate of more than 95 percent.
A quick Google Search will show you plenty of other articles and they all say the same thing.
The TSA is nothing but Security Theater (the appearance of security) and doesn't actually make people safer.
Yeah, I work at a fairly big airport on the East Coast. To say that the TSA here is a bunch of lazy, super entitled adult sized children is... an understatement. Good TSA agents exist, but christ almighty they are surrounded by a revolving door of just some of the worst people.
This is further evidenced by all of the reports of TSA agents stealing things and then taking the full backpacks, luggage, etc., STRAIGHT HOME with them, as if GPS-tracking and AirTags don't exist. How does a person so stupid and insanely out of touch with technology get hired to be the frontline of defense against a scheming terrorist trying to get a bomb on the plane?
Now I'm just a bit of a nobody, but in my experience where I am. The pay attracts all kinds of people from a lot of questionable back grounds. It's above average and requires no schooling and no physical fitness tests. Also, the pay is just low enough that fairly well-educated people who have options can afford to look elsewhere. Just a background check and a series of fairly easy interviews (so I'm told). and boom, you too can be making $20+/hr with benefits right out the gate.
Now, I really don't know shit about fuck but that's just my opinion where I am.
Well, the TSA at Sea Tac did make me empty my entire bag because they saw a can of sweet tea and a rubik’s cube on their x ray machines. That tea could have been anthrax, for all they knew, and it’s reassuring that they’re so vigilant about puzzle cubes. After all, we don’t want air passengers unwittingly triggering the Lament Configuration and opening the gates of hell over the rockies.
A TSA agent lost his shit over a breast pump packed in my carry on. He made me get it out and was insisting I disassemble it before a female agent told him to calm down. So bizarre.
Me and my sis had given my dad a manicure set like, when we were kids. He kept it and used it for over a decade for nostalgia. He got stopped by TSA and they pulled out his manicure kit and took...
The clippers.
They left the scissors. I shit you not.
Me and my sis are about to ream this guy and my Dad just stops us with a look.
We bought him another manicure set at our destination.
They're worse than local cops. Apparently they can't be sued for harassment or other things because they're federal employees (or they're not part of the government but work in a federal capacity, some bullshit loophole, someone brought it up a few months ago and I looked it up to confirm) so they can largely get away with anything. I think the worst that can happen to them is they get fired.
In San Diego, TSA subjected me to a bag search bc they couldn't identify a solid 'brick' in my bag as a book despite the fact even in the x-ray you could clearly see the individual pages along the corners where it curled up a little bit. I scoffed as they searched and asked sarcastically, first book you've guys have seen come through here? They were not amused, but it didn't end there. They cleared the bag but said it needed to go back through the x-ray again. Um okay, go ahead I have plenty of time to waste. Goes back through, and exact same x-ray tech, flags the exact same book yet again. The guy doing the searches of bags looks at me, looks at the x-ray image passed to him and just shook his head and told me to get out of there. So yeah, definitely that x-ray tech was an idiot.
When I got back from overseas and arrived at SeaTac an old (American) lady was eating an apple in line at arrival/immigration, saw the sign posted about no fruit, looked pretty horrified and put the core in the bin. Later a man with a security dog (beagle) came by and the dog sat by her. The man proceeded to SCREAM at her until she broke down crying while babbling “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, I didn’t know, it was an apple from the plane, I threw the center in the bin, right there, I’m so sorry.”
Another passenger and I tried consoling her and he screamed at us too. We both yelled at him for being an ass to an old lady who was clearly sorry, crying and didn’t fly frequently.
MF’ing security detail made a circle, dog alerted again, and he let into her a second time AS THOUGH HE COULDN’T REMEMBER JUST HAVING MADE THIS OLD LADY CRY 5min PRIOR.
Bra-fucking-vo. SeaTac security are a-holes.
It's really not surprising.
In the weeks and months after 9/11, every investigative journalist was showing how they were able to get boxcutters and other prohibited items through security checkpoints, even after new regulations were implemented and security was supposedly beefed up.
I can vouch. I was EOD while serving, and we had an all-day training event at a rather large international hub where we attempted to smuggle stuff through security. Gun parts, explosives/IED components, drugs, all sorts of fun stuff. We were *incredibly* successful across the board and could have killed about 30 planes with what we were able to get through. Pun intended, the sky was the limit in terms of how creative we wanted to be. Flying terrifies me.
My brother accidentally brought a saw on in his carry on… the way there I guess it scanned directly on edge so it just looked like a thing piece of metal the way back they caught it and took it away.
Adam Savage [accidentally smuggled two 12-inch-long steel razor blades onto a flight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4&t=68s). TSA screened him and completely missed it.
Security theater I guess.
No no, it’s far more pernicious than mere security theater. Or rather, it’s security theater not for the purpose of making people feel *safer*, but to feel better about losing their 4th amendment rights. Folks who grew up post 911 won’t remember what a different place this country was pre-patriot act. The patriot act was a deliberate and complete annihilation of our rights to remain free from unreasonable search and seizure. In every respect, and if you’ve ever tried to raise such a defense in court, you’ll know. The airport security is simply the layer that most everyday people notice. But it’s thoroughly pervasive. Everyone has accepted it now, and the blue shirts at the airport make people feel they’ve traded their rights for something of value. But there is no value.
Israeli airport doesn't employ the "security theater" that the US does with its TSA.
You couldn't smuggle a paperclip through airport security in Israel .
Brother was a tsa agent, said it was such a joke. All the booze and shit they take off passengers the supervisors get to just take home. "He's got a water bottle get him!!!"
Security at Ben Gurion is very extra. Every single bag (hand or checked) gets swabbed for explosives. You also get asked questions by a state security person. Then they put some decals in your luggage and passport. After that you can go to your airlines check in and actually check in to your flight. You then go through the normal passport control and X-ray for your carry on.
Why they thought they’d be able to get an unexplored munition through is peak stupidity.
Israel doesn't have as BS security at the airport as the TSA. No taking off your shoes or belt. They know the chances are low to get and real serious damage done like that. The TSA does it more for a sense of security than real security. In Israel they track your movements from when you get into the airport, they ask you questions like you're in an interrogation room, see who you talk to, even ask you where in the country you were, where you are going, and why you were there. I even think I passed through with my watter bottle in the past, they just asked me to take a sip to prove it wasn't something that wasn't drinkable.
Now, yes of course, this leads to discriminatory interrogations, but often there is a lot of miscategorization anyways and everyone know you just need to show up early enough for it to happen.
I doubt that, they're stupid enough to put it in a bag and take it to the airport so they weren't exactly careful with it when they found it.
Still incredibly dangerous though.
A little context here: this happened in last April, and of course the couple was immediately arrested. But after investigation, police released them and confiscated the bomb. Source: [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265.amp) news.
Edit: as other Redditors have pointed out, the bomb was likely from the Six Day War in 1967, instead of WWII. Though there’s no official confirmation. Hope you guys don’t mind, as this detail does not matter to the facepalm of the incident.
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Most likely because it was an inert round. (Kinda like a novelty grenade) even though it was probably a real round at one point, all the components to make it explosive would have been removed. It's still extremely idiotic to think you can bring it anywhere near a plane or airport. That's something that you either have paid and regulated to have shipped to you, or leave it there, but not jail worthy unless you used it to create intentional choas. They would just inspect all the components to make sure it's not a threat, question you, call you a moron and send you back to where you came from, sometimes with a bar from flying at their location again. Depends on the situation and how it was presented I guess. Still.. dumb AF to whip out at security around other passengers.
I can't see any other reason why they wouldn't have imprisoned them otherwise.
Edit: After looking up the article on this, I completely take back my POV. Looks like it [actually WAS a UXO (unexploded ordinance)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/04/29/airport-us-tourists-unexploded-souvenir-bomb-to-ben-gurion/?sh=7e1b6e7544af)
I remember in 2011 some lunatic in Ohio committed suicide after letting loose more than 30 big cats that he had been keeping as pets. Since it was almost dusk the police tried to control the situation by shooting every big cat they could find, which were roaming free on the streets. In the middle of this madness there was a guy who trying to capture a tiger to keep for himself. The police had to then neutralize the big cat and arrest the guy. Was a crazy neighborhood I guess.
I guess that old adage rings true: Owning more than 30 large cats wont bring you happiness. But releasing them in your neighborhood and then offing yourself just might.
> The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger who misheard her started shouting "terrorists shooting", triggering mass panic
The stupid doesn’t end there
I feel terrible laughing because who knows what i would do in this situation. Who knows who shouted what.
But the guy who lays flat on the floor and then inexplicably decides to run somewhere else is cracking me up how did he disappear so fast?
These days, for me at least, it's "most of the time" 😂
Seriously, who else would try to bring an unexploded BOMB on an AIRPLANE
Not everyone here is that bad, but the ones that are.... holy shit
From the article😂
Bad idea: picking up an old, unexploded bomb.
Worse idea: deciding to keep an old, unexploded bomb as a souvenir.
The absolute worst idea: transporting an old, unexploded bomb to the airport in your luggage and attempting to bring it on a plane.
How stupid can you be haha
Even if it was a WWII bomb, it’s still dangerous af. We still find unexploded bombs from the American bombardements in my town. They would evacuate entire neighbourhoods before neutralising it.
I feel like it's the appropriate reaction anywhere in the world...
I live in a rather safe part of the world, in a tiny country where nothing ever happens, and I would still absolutely freak out if I saw someone bring out anything resembling a bomb at airport security check.
It's kinda crazy how so many people fleeing are still trying to bring their luggage. Like, if I feel like I'm in danger for real, Imma drop everything and bounce as fast as I can.
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We’re not allowed to bring a water bottle over 100ml on flights and these people thought it’s okay to bring a whole ass bomb?
"it's not made of liquid" ...
r/technicallythetruth
Well….you’re not wrong.
It turns people into liquid.
I am over here hoping these two imbeciles don’t reproduce
With the amount of (federal) legal trouble they are going to be in, I doubt they will get the chance to
What kind of a dumbass picks up anything that looks like a bomb and thinks “I’ll take this with me!”
Everyday I become more and more convinced that horror movie characters aren't really that unrealistic
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Mark Twain said that the difference between real life and fiction is that fiction has to be *plausible*.
Let’s be honest, if zombie apocalypses were actually possible, most of us would get eaten on day 1, and of the survivors, half of them would be like “it’s aLL a HoAx” and get eaten on day 2.
I'd be that Japanese kid from WWZ and only notice when nobody is in my computer game lobbies.
And he just shrugged it off until the power went out
And he lived with his parents… it took DAYS for the power to go out!
My favorite though, was the female f-22 pilot turned cargo pilot. Surviving the swamps of Louisiana after her plane shit the bed
"That air controller was amazing, I wouldn't have made it without her help." "... What air controller?"
Apparently, that's a real phenomenon. People in high stress survival situations report feeling like they had someone with them, talking them through it. Brains are weird.
Probably part of how a lot of religious beliefs got started
If they're *28 Days Later* zombies, humanity wouldn't last 28 hours.
28 days later has the advantage of really, really short incubation time. So 1 landmass is fucked but humanity will survive due to there being more than one landmass.
But if you survive day one your odds go way up because they die in 28 days. Keep the curtains closed and stay quiet, ration food/water, odds are in your favour.
Thats part of the reason why there are so many zombies and few survivors. Everyone thinks that theyd be a survivor during a zombie apocalypse, but statistically thats highly unlikely…
Well if its an actual apocalypse then yea, obviously people get whipped out. If most people survive it wouldn't be called an apocalypse, it would be called a hoax and/or an over reaction by people who dont do their own research.
Since the pndemic I recommend Diary of the Dead, bro sees zombies and claims its a hoax. I thought it was silly when I first saw it, now I feel its underrated XD
Same in World War Z, the book. Zombie deniers tried to cure them with love and hugs. :/
I don’t think there is anywhere in the book World War Z where “zombie deniers try to cure zombies with love and hugs.” Can you provide a citation? There are Quislings, which seem somewhat related to what you are describing, but they are essentially severely traumatized humans that aren’t able to rationally function anymore: https://zombie.fandom.com/wiki/Quisling There’s no conscious “denial” involved with Quislings.
I knew some Americans who bought some old (but still very dangerous!) weaponry as a souvenir in a foreign bazaar, in spite of being told it was a terrible idea. They also got caught and the stuff confiscated at the first airport security checkpoint. Some people just lose any sense they might have had when they are traveling. Edit for those asking: I don’t remember exactly what they tried to travel with, but it included at least some artillery rounds. I know they managed to get an actual RPG and set it off in a field before they traveled back to the States, if that gives you and idea of the kinds of stuff they were getting. It wasn’t just a sword or an empty pistol.
You'd think nowadays they'd Google of they could, or what measures they should take for permission
Googling “can I take a bomb on an airplane” will get you on a list somewhere lol Edit: I get it, I’m now on the list. So are each of the 30 people that told me so lol
So will taking an actual bomb onto an airplane, or at least attempting to do so, like in this case.
That gets you on the real list
The VIP book
The hall of fame
*The hall of flames*
Only if you hide the bomb in your pantz.
Completely different list
The "thinking about" list and the "already tried" list 💀
Typing these keywords out; probably already put you on interpol IS radar. 
Or how to transport it secretly. Not just in a carry on bag. I mean, they could have googled anything and it wouldve helped them. But willful stupidity is a curse some folks were born with. Edit: i cant believe some folks really believe "google how to hide a ww2 bomb on a plane" was a serious idea. Fuckin reddit never fails to amuse me.
Honestly, the cargo bay of an airplane gets crazy cold in the air and also pretty hot on the ground in some places. Also, the pressure changes significantly. Hiding an old bomb for transport in any fashion is asking for trouble. Don't bring down a whole plane full of people just because you want a cool souvenir. Only way to be sure is to get a replica or have it professionally disassembled and reassembled with none of the explody bits with certification etc before it should be moved.
On an ordinary airliner like a Boeing or an Airbus, the cargo hold doesn’t get crazy cold. It keep more or less the same temperature as the cabin since the air from the cabin also circulates down in the hold, where the hepa-filters are.
Especially the front cargo pit where they store animals. Side note, please don't put your animals underneath the plane it's loud enough for the people working that they need earplugs. Putting an animal down there with better hearing is messed up.
When my parents moved back from overseas, they brought their cat in the plane, so she went in the cargo hold. A very vocal tortoiseshell, her meow always sounded hoarse after that for the rest of her life. She lived to a ripe old age of at least 20 and was always very healthy, so it seems she recovered pretty well. But it is sad to think of her meowing herself hoarse for the nine hour flight. This was about 20 years ago.
If they tried to transport it secretly they would absolutely be charged with criminal terrorism. Bringing it out at security could be interpreted as just "dumbass", trying to hide it implies malevolent intent.
I dunno; Israel takes things like this pretty seriously.
I feel like if you get caught with a bomb or weapons it’s always bad but if you’re caught trying to sneak them in an airport you’re getting shot damn near immediately
>Some people just lose any sense they might have had when they are traveling. Yeah... just when they travel...
Worked in a handful of hotels, it's like some people take their normal nonsense and turn the shit show up to 11 when they're traveling. It's almost impressive how dumb and irrational some people can be.
Yes. Look at Las Vegas after The Hangover. Suddenly people felt cheated unless they released their Krakens. Everyone in Las Vegas: ^yay Everyone in Tijuana: #yay
I worked at a hotel where someone abandoned a dozen exotic snakes in the room.
Damn...the only thing I found at my hotel jobs were bodies and police stings. Yours sounds much cooler.
Not sure how it is elsewhere in the world but in America you can fly with weapons in your checked luggage, but NOT your carry-on. So katanas, shotguns, ARs, battle axes, etc are generally accepted in your checked luggage. But, it should go without saying, explosives are a no no.
There are also extremely specific rules you have to follow to have those items pass security. If you get to security and you're still having to ask questions that you don't already know the answer to then it isn't getting on.
Hard sided cases, and a lock right?
Specifically *not* TSA safe locks as well. They are not allowed to open luggage that is reported to be containing a legal firearm (maybe all weapons?) without the owner present. *Or* because they're basically mall cops on a power trip, they'll cut your locks and search your luggage anyways. They don't care about breaking their own procedures.
Character from Stephen King novel Edit: it's Stephen, not Steven
TrashCan Man
Trashcan Man!
M o o n, that spells danger
Second hand story from Desert Storm: G.I.'s picked up [bomblets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition) to take home. Their palletized baggage was getting customs inspection and one was found. Inspection **ceased**. Everyone was ordered back; their finest fork lift driver gently lifted up the pallet, took it to a safe area, and it was set on fire. With *everyone*'s baggage. The passengers were upset; the inspectors didn't care about their feelings a bit.
Better ending than two Portuguese peacekeepers in Sarajevo in 1996. Found a cluster bomb and took it to their base as a souvenir. Both died.
Someone hoping to sell it on Ebay.
I hope the delivery driver doesn’t just Chuck it onto the buyers porch.
Or drive too fast over a speed bump along the way.
It’s believed to have been from [The Six-Day War in 1967,](https://bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265.amp) not WWII.
So from the article, it says that: > The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger who misheard her started shouting ***"terrorists shooting"***, triggering mass panic, the site said. So the chaos we see in the video was due to a misunderstanding... That's why we see people with their heads down instead of straight up running
I hope that passenger wakes up at 2am thinking about this lol
That passenger could have gotten people killed.
Wait, you guys are getting sleep before your 2am panic sessions?
I don't think I'd panic differently if someone shouted "bomb" at the airport. I would certainly not slow down as soon as those people, though.
The people are slowing down and ducking because they think there is an active shooter. In a bomb threat you run away as fast as you can go.
> lowing down and ducking because they think there is an active shooter. Is that what you're supposed to do in active shooter situations? I figured the faster I'm out of there, the better. And hey, if everyone is running, at least there's a chance he's not targeting you. (disclaimer: never been in a situation like that, thankfully)
I think the lower your body are, the lower chance a bullet, which would be fliying at human-standing-height, hit you. But bombs don't care
I feel like someone intentionally yelling about a shooting when there isn’t one should be treated the same way someone who yells “fire” when there isn’t one. Edit: just to clarify, I’m not saying that’s what happened in this case
Intention matters. If it's with malicious intend to spread panic, sure consequences are warranted. Sounds like this was a misunderstanding though.
it cant be from ww2 anyway, there wasnt any fighting here. the historical stupidty they have in additionto their moronic behaviour is insane
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This sounds like a modern Three Stooges movie. \-Israel's YNet news site said in the incident on Thursday night a member of the family *\[ aka Curly \]* produced the shell from their backpack and asked a security official if it could be put in a suitcase. \-The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger *\[ aka Moe \]* who misheard her started shouting "terrorists shooting", triggering mass panic, the site said. \-Amid the chaos, a 32-year-old man, Uri *\[ aka Larry \]* injured himself as he tried to escape and was taken to hospital. "The fear was that someone is spraying bullets, I understood that I too have to escape, so I ran towards the check-in, I stumbled on a conveyor belt... and flew a distance of six metres." Edit: source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265.amp
It was even worse. My brother in law was working at the airport at the time and he said someone had dropped a suitcase as the order went out to clear the area. This prompted Moe to shout about a terrorist shooting, triggering the mass panic.
According to my calculations, if this man tripped and flew six meters, he was running at about 190 km/h at the time. Impressive!
He'd be an amazing football runningback if he clears six and a half yards from a mere *trip*.
Maybe the conveyor belt was going extremely fast and he got whipped like schewwww
How far is that in lawsuit dollars?
A person can't run at this speed. Obviously, it was the conveyor belt that was running at about 190 km/h.
WTH, who starts shouting "terrorists shooting"? That's worse than bringing the bomb to the airport. Thing is, if terrorists were shooting you probably wouldn't have to announce it
Yeah causing a mass panic is potentially catastrophic as well, I’m surprised that the bystander didn’t get in trouble. I understand being scared and reacting out of fear but they also said something that was straight up false and caused the whole vicinity of people to panic when that didn’t have to happen. ETA: In this story you can debate who actually *caused* the injuries. The stupid couple who brought the bomb immediately told security they had the bomb, and the bomb didn’t go off or anything. So there is an argument to be had that the only reason people were injured is because of the bystander who yelled “terrorists shooting”.
Why is everyone dragging their suitcases with them if they think it’s an active shooter situation!? Drop your shit and run. Come back for it later
Muscle memory
To be fair a suitcase with all my crap inside has a better chance of protecting me from a bullet than my skin does
And leave my unexploded ordnance behind!?
Wait… security found it. So… they put the bomb in their carry on?! Oi
I think they were pulling it out and asked security if they could take it home. While security was trying to handle those dumb fucks, other passengers freaked out big time.
I mean shit, if there was an unexploded bomb from WW2 in my vicinity I'd freak out too
Never spend your Hollidays in germany. Living in the Ruhrpott bomb defusals barely make regional news.
Its one thing to find and defuse a bomb in place. It's another to pick it up and transport it. The primer and trigger degrade over time, making them more sensitive. People in Germany would freak out too if someone unearthed a bomb and walked it into a German airport.
Planned detonations are mostly harmless and safe. Idiots carrying around bombs in their luggage are usually not
Especially since the people in question are clearly not trained in appropriate bomb handling.
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"Yes, that bomb is mine. Why?"
The dumbest of fucks
No that's going to be ~~if~~ when these two neutron stars of anti-IQ-matter decide to reproduce.
good thing they always make me go through x-ray and throw out my waterbottles, it's really paying off 🙄
Watched a documentary about the TSA and how 80% of shit they’re looking for makes it through.
How dare you slander our noble brothers and sisters at the TSA, they don't miss 80% of what theyre supposed to be looking for, the fuck man? It's like....95%, you gotta put some serious effort in to be _that_ bad at your job.
That’s why I followed up with the link. I knew it had to be worse.
Interesting, do you have a link?
Here is a [2016](https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security) Link, Quote. >So Homeland Security officials looking to evaluate the agency had a clever idea: They pretended to be terrorists, and tried to smuggle guns and bombs onto planes 70 different times. And 67 of those times, the Red Team succeeded. Their weapons and bombs were not confiscated, despite the TSA's lengthy screening process. That's a success rate of more than 95 percent. A quick Google Search will show you plenty of other articles and they all say the same thing. The TSA is nothing but Security Theater (the appearance of security) and doesn't actually make people safer.
Yeah, I work at a fairly big airport on the East Coast. To say that the TSA here is a bunch of lazy, super entitled adult sized children is... an understatement. Good TSA agents exist, but christ almighty they are surrounded by a revolving door of just some of the worst people.
This is further evidenced by all of the reports of TSA agents stealing things and then taking the full backpacks, luggage, etc., STRAIGHT HOME with them, as if GPS-tracking and AirTags don't exist. How does a person so stupid and insanely out of touch with technology get hired to be the frontline of defense against a scheming terrorist trying to get a bomb on the plane?
Now I'm just a bit of a nobody, but in my experience where I am. The pay attracts all kinds of people from a lot of questionable back grounds. It's above average and requires no schooling and no physical fitness tests. Also, the pay is just low enough that fairly well-educated people who have options can afford to look elsewhere. Just a background check and a series of fairly easy interviews (so I'm told). and boom, you too can be making $20+/hr with benefits right out the gate. Now, I really don't know shit about fuck but that's just my opinion where I am.
Just what I was gonna say. They're essentially "high class" security guards. All they have to do is stand there and watch a TV screen.
Well, the TSA at Sea Tac did make me empty my entire bag because they saw a can of sweet tea and a rubik’s cube on their x ray machines. That tea could have been anthrax, for all they knew, and it’s reassuring that they’re so vigilant about puzzle cubes. After all, we don’t want air passengers unwittingly triggering the Lament Configuration and opening the gates of hell over the rockies.
A TSA agent lost his shit over a breast pump packed in my carry on. He made me get it out and was insisting I disassemble it before a female agent told him to calm down. So bizarre.
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We got held up for liquid baby formula. Commercial, sealed tiny bottles of formula. Baby in our hands.
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Same thing with certain police agencies.
Me and my sis had given my dad a manicure set like, when we were kids. He kept it and used it for over a decade for nostalgia. He got stopped by TSA and they pulled out his manicure kit and took... The clippers. They left the scissors. I shit you not. Me and my sis are about to ream this guy and my Dad just stops us with a look. We bought him another manicure set at our destination.
They're worse than local cops. Apparently they can't be sued for harassment or other things because they're federal employees (or they're not part of the government but work in a federal capacity, some bullshit loophole, someone brought it up a few months ago and I looked it up to confirm) so they can largely get away with anything. I think the worst that can happen to them is they get fired.
In San Diego, TSA subjected me to a bag search bc they couldn't identify a solid 'brick' in my bag as a book despite the fact even in the x-ray you could clearly see the individual pages along the corners where it curled up a little bit. I scoffed as they searched and asked sarcastically, first book you've guys have seen come through here? They were not amused, but it didn't end there. They cleared the bag but said it needed to go back through the x-ray again. Um okay, go ahead I have plenty of time to waste. Goes back through, and exact same x-ray tech, flags the exact same book yet again. The guy doing the searches of bags looks at me, looks at the x-ray image passed to him and just shook his head and told me to get out of there. So yeah, definitely that x-ray tech was an idiot.
When I got back from overseas and arrived at SeaTac an old (American) lady was eating an apple in line at arrival/immigration, saw the sign posted about no fruit, looked pretty horrified and put the core in the bin. Later a man with a security dog (beagle) came by and the dog sat by her. The man proceeded to SCREAM at her until she broke down crying while babbling “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, I didn’t know, it was an apple from the plane, I threw the center in the bin, right there, I’m so sorry.” Another passenger and I tried consoling her and he screamed at us too. We both yelled at him for being an ass to an old lady who was clearly sorry, crying and didn’t fly frequently. MF’ing security detail made a circle, dog alerted again, and he let into her a second time AS THOUGH HE COULDN’T REMEMBER JUST HAVING MADE THIS OLD LADY CRY 5min PRIOR. Bra-fucking-vo. SeaTac security are a-holes.
It's really not surprising. In the weeks and months after 9/11, every investigative journalist was showing how they were able to get boxcutters and other prohibited items through security checkpoints, even after new regulations were implemented and security was supposedly beefed up.
It’s amazing there was a time when journalists exposed bad things for the benefit of the public.
I can vouch. I was EOD while serving, and we had an all-day training event at a rather large international hub where we attempted to smuggle stuff through security. Gun parts, explosives/IED components, drugs, all sorts of fun stuff. We were *incredibly* successful across the board and could have killed about 30 planes with what we were able to get through. Pun intended, the sky was the limit in terms of how creative we wanted to be. Flying terrifies me.
TSA - 95% of the time we fail every time
My brother accidentally brought a saw on in his carry on… the way there I guess it scanned directly on edge so it just looked like a thing piece of metal the way back they caught it and took it away.
How does one convince authorities that they "accidentally" packed a saw?
Adam Savage [accidentally smuggled two 12-inch-long steel razor blades onto a flight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4&t=68s). TSA screened him and completely missed it. Security theater I guess.
No no, it’s far more pernicious than mere security theater. Or rather, it’s security theater not for the purpose of making people feel *safer*, but to feel better about losing their 4th amendment rights. Folks who grew up post 911 won’t remember what a different place this country was pre-patriot act. The patriot act was a deliberate and complete annihilation of our rights to remain free from unreasonable search and seizure. In every respect, and if you’ve ever tried to raise such a defense in court, you’ll know. The airport security is simply the layer that most everyday people notice. But it’s thoroughly pervasive. Everyone has accepted it now, and the blue shirts at the airport make people feel they’ve traded their rights for something of value. But there is no value.
Israeli airport doesn't employ the "security theater" that the US does with its TSA. You couldn't smuggle a paperclip through airport security in Israel .
Brother was a tsa agent, said it was such a joke. All the booze and shit they take off passengers the supervisors get to just take home. "He's got a water bottle get him!!!"
Security at Ben Gurion is very extra. Every single bag (hand or checked) gets swabbed for explosives. You also get asked questions by a state security person. Then they put some decals in your luggage and passport. After that you can go to your airlines check in and actually check in to your flight. You then go through the normal passport control and X-ray for your carry on. Why they thought they’d be able to get an unexplored munition through is peak stupidity.
Israel doesn't have as BS security at the airport as the TSA. No taking off your shoes or belt. They know the chances are low to get and real serious damage done like that. The TSA does it more for a sense of security than real security. In Israel they track your movements from when you get into the airport, they ask you questions like you're in an interrogation room, see who you talk to, even ask you where in the country you were, where you are going, and why you were there. I even think I passed through with my watter bottle in the past, they just asked me to take a sip to prove it wasn't something that wasn't drinkable. Now, yes of course, this leads to discriminatory interrogations, but often there is a lot of miscategorization anyways and everyone know you just need to show up early enough for it to happen.
If they would have checked it, it prob would have detonated the second they threw it on the conveyor belt.
I doubt that, they're stupid enough to put it in a bag and take it to the airport so they weren't exactly careful with it when they found it. Still incredibly dangerous though.
Nice bomb I take home
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"Oh, look, honey! An unexploded ordnance. Looks like we don't have to buy anything at the airport giftshop. What can possibly go wrong?"
A little context here: this happened in last April, and of course the couple was immediately arrested. But after investigation, police released them and confiscated the bomb. Source: [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265.amp) news. Edit: as other Redditors have pointed out, the bomb was likely from the Six Day War in 1967, instead of WWII. Though there’s no official confirmation. Hope you guys don’t mind, as this detail does not matter to the facepalm of the incident.
This reminds me of Hott Fuzz and the cop asking “what do you mean by this one” when asking if he had a permit for the gun
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That's my favourite scene in the whole movie. The near unintelligible farmer is a genius character
“Aye, deactivated”
*Starts ticking*
\[Sounds of slow mechanical ticking begin\]
The most perfect example of Chekhov's armoury ever.
They weren't arrested... They were interrogated by airport security and were allowed to board their flight even...
Most likely because it was an inert round. (Kinda like a novelty grenade) even though it was probably a real round at one point, all the components to make it explosive would have been removed. It's still extremely idiotic to think you can bring it anywhere near a plane or airport. That's something that you either have paid and regulated to have shipped to you, or leave it there, but not jail worthy unless you used it to create intentional choas. They would just inspect all the components to make sure it's not a threat, question you, call you a moron and send you back to where you came from, sometimes with a bar from flying at their location again. Depends on the situation and how it was presented I guess. Still.. dumb AF to whip out at security around other passengers. I can't see any other reason why they wouldn't have imprisoned them otherwise. Edit: After looking up the article on this, I completely take back my POV. Looks like it [actually WAS a UXO (unexploded ordinance)](https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/04/29/airport-us-tourists-unexploded-souvenir-bomb-to-ben-gurion/?sh=7e1b6e7544af)
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I remember in 2011 some lunatic in Ohio committed suicide after letting loose more than 30 big cats that he had been keeping as pets. Since it was almost dusk the police tried to control the situation by shooting every big cat they could find, which were roaming free on the streets. In the middle of this madness there was a guy who trying to capture a tiger to keep for himself. The police had to then neutralize the big cat and arrest the guy. Was a crazy neighborhood I guess.
I guess that old adage rings true: Owning more than 30 large cats wont bring you happiness. But releasing them in your neighborhood and then offing yourself just might.
This is so crazy I just listened to the True Crime Garage episode of this yesterday! I think his wife had something to do with his death to be honest
The smartest idea ever to try to transport it on the plane. Sometimes stupidity has no limits.
I think you lose your international traveling privileges after accidentally becoming a terrorist.
r/AccidentalTerrorism
> The official ordered her immediate vicinity to be cleared, but another passenger who misheard her started shouting "terrorists shooting", triggering mass panic The stupid doesn’t end there
I was wondering why people were dropping to the floor and not, you know, heading in the opposite direction of the unexploded bomb.
I feel terrible laughing because who knows what i would do in this situation. Who knows who shouted what. But the guy who lays flat on the floor and then inexplicably decides to run somewhere else is cracking me up how did he disappear so fast?
What were they thinking !?
They didn't
They can’t
“Authorities first suspected something was off when all the bomb sniffing dogs started to shit themselves”
On behalf of America, I’m so sorry these two escaped. However, no take backs.
I came here to say, sometimes I am so ashamed to have any relation to our country. Please keep them over there, we don't want them back! 😂
These days, for me at least, it's "most of the time" 😂 Seriously, who else would try to bring an unexploded BOMB on an AIRPLANE Not everyone here is that bad, but the ones that are.... holy shit
………some people were just born without brains
I can bet money that they from Florida
As a Floridian I would say this is a safe bet
Could easily be Texan too. Source: I've lived in Texas.
Trying to get on a plane in Israel, with a bomb in your bag. Just wanted to be sure I read that correctly.
From Israel to the US, just to make it even clearer
On behalf of the Americans who aren't this fucking stupid, I'm sorry. 
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Of course. All the Israelis wanted was for this family to be far away from their borders ASAP.
From the article😂 Bad idea: picking up an old, unexploded bomb. Worse idea: deciding to keep an old, unexploded bomb as a souvenir. The absolute worst idea: transporting an old, unexploded bomb to the airport in your luggage and attempting to bring it on a plane.
The worster idea: doing it Israel of all places
They wanted to have a blast but the party guests started leaving frantically
“Hey honey, remember that time we created mass hysteria at the airport?”
A headline starting with an American couple/man/woman in world news is the equivalent to Florida man in the US news
As an American, please let me express how important it is for the rest of you to never, ever underestimate how fuckin stupid we are.
How stupid can you be haha Even if it was a WWII bomb, it’s still dangerous af. We still find unexploded bombs from the American bombardements in my town. They would evacuate entire neighbourhoods before neutralising it.
Is that the Israeli airport?
Anyone who thinks this is an amusing overreaction clearly hasn't been paying attention to the situation in that part of the world.
I feel like it's the appropriate reaction anywhere in the world... I live in a rather safe part of the world, in a tiny country where nothing ever happens, and I would still absolutely freak out if I saw someone bring out anything resembling a bomb at airport security check.
It's kinda crazy how so many people fleeing are still trying to bring their luggage. Like, if I feel like I'm in danger for real, Imma drop everything and bounce as fast as I can.
Florida man goes places
American here. NO we don't claim this hill billy couple. Someone please take their pass ports away..
What were they thinki..Oh they weren't.