Jul 19 2007DIY iPod charger mistaken for bomb

You really gotta love most of those TSA drones/ex con's/mindless wonders.

typical stupid Americans, wouldn't be surprised if they were afraid of their own shadow.

First of all, he's probably not as "techincally inclined" as you are. Secondly, he's just doing his job. Think about it. If you were him, and you saw something that a) looked homemade and b) you didn't fully understand, would you take the chance of letting it onto a plane? I would hope not. Also, yeah, it's only plastic glued to a USB port, but is he supposed to assume that this isn't just a a smaller part of some bigger device that may indeed pose a threat? I fly very often and it makes me feel a little more secure knowing that the TSA are doing their jobs. Unfortunately, we now live in a world where our safety and security are left in the hands of those whose jobs may or may not be scrutinized from time to time for what? Being too cautious? I'm sorry, but it's this kind of "ridiculous" behavior (as you called it) that may save lives one day...

Oh my mistake because there have been all of one attack on a plane in the 300 year history of the US. typical American garbage response filled with media sensationalism.
if you want to feel safer i would say that Airlines should think about hiring more competent workers instead of the minimum wage vo-tech students who couldn't even get into community college.

I'm just mad because the TSA took my favorite vibrator away the last time i flew. You know, the french tickler that whistles "baby got back" when i stick it in my ass.

"Dr. Wiggles", i miss you.

So if you are a terrorist here is a tip, get a Bang & Olufsen catalog and make your bombs look more like sleek modern consumer electronics.

You could do something with D cell batteries, or AAA size for that matter, but do they take away anything that uses batteries? No. Hell, a cell phone battery can pack more than enough punch. Probably an ipod battery too, but I don't have one. Really, unless you are going to ban all batteries, taking those D cells was pretty useless. Illusion of safety. Why did they not confiscate his ipod battery too?

Anyways, long story short..is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling.

Nice ghetto charger
I wouldn't be caught dead with that thing

I'm glad they took it away, did that person a favor!

I'm posting in solidarity with Beastman.
"Dr. Wiggles" will live on in all our hearts!
God Save the Queen.

The guard must feel like such a douche,. imagine how much shit he's copping for this. although his friends and family will be all "oh you were just doing your job", the rest of the world is laughing at how f***ing ignorant he is. i won't give the guy shit though. he's having a hard enough time as it is. IED.. puh-lease.

What retards.

They just want you to buy more D batteries at the store in the freakin' place.

I don't know how anyone can mistake it for being a weapon. It freakin' looks like what it is, and I've never actually seen one before now.

And now I want one.

But after I get back from taking my flight to nyc so I don't get stuck explaining that.

GuySmiley thinks that next time you should replace the D cell batteries with small bottles of shampoo and conditioner. Enjoy prison. That will teach you to test your boundries.

GuySmiley thinks that next time you should replace the D cell batteries with small bottles of shampoo and conditioner. Enjoy prison. That will teach you to test your boundries.

GuySmiley should STFU.

And I guess I could understand how someone who was uneducated in electronics might be able to see that...But still. So ridiculous.
...And my mom just came in, saw the picture, and said she thought it was a piece of furniture.
TT_TT

Actually #4 there's been a lot more then one.

I don't blame the guard though. He was just doing his job, prolly has no technological knowledge. I'm sure they've only trained him on what to look for, not what's ok. He was prolly an older gentlemen too.

as a person thats been through plenty of IED training and been hit by 2 of them personally.. I looks a LOT like a detonator they only thing that sets it off is the USB, but they make some crazy shit over in iraq so it would still alarm me. and all it would take is one D battery to set off a 155 artillery round with copper wire strung too it. But ill give it to ya that it only looks like a detonator with nothing to put it into, unless someone made a laptop bomb lol.

rcanonymous-

Sure, the TSA is doing a great job at taking away your water bottles and making you walk around on their grimy floors with no shoes on. When it comes to finding actual explosives....not so much: http://consumerist.com/consumer/security/tsa-confiscates-water-bottle-misses-bomb-276845.php

Federal inspectors were able to get mock explosives past security FIVE out of seven times! Now you go ahead and tell me again that TSA is doing a good job.

The TSA is a farce, and a bad one at that. We are only getting the illusion of safety. The entire security system needs to be rebuilt.

HAHA...

But look at the glue! BOMB!

[b]tileeater[/b], nice tip. I hope you don't end up at Guantanamo for that.

Beastman, there has only been one attack on a plane in the 300 year history of the US? Uhhhh.... planes have only been around for about a 100 or so, commercial for only the last 60+ years. And the US has only been offically here for 230+ years. What are you Mike Moore with your facts? God knows he tries but always seems to come out looking like a douche. Like you.

"Because Lord knows what kind of mayhem you can do with two D sized batteries."

Ask your mom.

let me give you the real numbers since you asked so nicely buttsex, there have been three plane bombings in the history of the USA, in a span of 70+ years of flying they are

TWA flight 841 in 1974
Pan Am Flight 830 in 1981
and September 11th

3 bombings in 70+ years run to the hills ma' parker and alert the presses!!!
Again i reiterate how stupid Americans are, God save the queen!

Random Nigel should make me :P :P :P :P

First of all, what difference does it make if there were 3 instances or 3,000 used as an attack??? Here's the ONLY fact you need to know. PEOPLE DIED. It should only take one instance for everyone to try to be aware. Secondly, I never said the TSA was the world's finest example of competence or best at their jobs. But it IS their job. When you're flying on that plane, you better believe that you're gonna want them to do every single thing in their power to make sure that the flight's going to be safe. Sure it's easy to trash anyone sitting in front of your computer, but it's different when your ass is boarding that plane. So what if he makes a mistake here and there... so what if he mistakes some techy, homemade, ghetto-rigged item here and there for something. Would you rather he went to work half-assed letting things go left and right? Give it a break. They may not be the most compotent people but guess what? They're the ones that're doing. You have a problem? Sign up for the TSA and do it yourself, instead of sitting there dissing someone who's just trying to make a living just like the rest of us. You're right. The whole system probably does need to get rebuilt. But unfortunately, it is what it is for now... and taking personal potshots at TSA employeese doesn't do anything.

I had the same problem last summer at JFK with my gun-shaped belt buckle. They roped off my conveyor belt area, sent me into questioning, and looked like morons when they pulled out the "gun." They told me I couldn't bring it on the plane, even after examining it and seeing that it was a hollow 3 inch BELT BUCKLE.

Of course, me asking, "What am I going to do with it? Pistol whip someone?!" probably didn't help...

Of course, we brits do have limp meat.

It would be nice if security was good enough that if someone did pop out of their seat, announce "I HAVE A BOMB!", and brandish a hunk of plastic, wires, and globs of adhesive, the flight crew could just take them down secure in the knowledge that it wasn't a bomb. As it is we have security theater.

Even if it is a completely harmless object on close examination, chances are, if you're going to misuse it, you aren't going to allow anyone to examine it closelyonce the action starts.. So while the TSA agent may agree with you that it really is an iPod charger after he's looked at it a bit, the screaming passengers/hostages on your flight aren't going to have that luxury.

I'm with LMAO.

Hahahahahahaha!!! Where did he get that hideous charity shop reject prosthetic pink battery case, some hideous (e)mail order sex shop prosthetic pink 'realistic' vibrating vagina???? Hahahaha!!! If I saw anyone fiddling with that next to me on plane I'd knock 'em out with that 1 litre bottle of duty free Southern Comfort I'm allowed to carry on and expect to get away with it.

It would have been impossible to have made this thing look even worse. Maybe could have smeared it with ear wax and faeces...

Reminds me of some idiot Australian backpacker in Hong Kong who got stopped with a key ring made from a bullet his grandad had made in a war and got well upset when it was confiscated. He deserved a kicking an' all...