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October 20, 2003
I Feel Safer....
...not. You know the boxcutters & stuff found hidden on the SWAirlines planes?
According to the affidavit filed along with the criminal complaint, Heatwole sent the Transportation Security Administration an e-mail in September outlining six security breaches at Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
"The writer (of the e-mail) stated that he smuggled several items on his person and some in his carry-on bag," the FBI's Morefield said in the affidavit.
He said Heatwole gave details of six incidents, beginning February 7, 2003 and ending September 14, 2003, in which items were taken through security checkpoints and onto aircraft.
According to the e-mail, Heatwole placed two box-cutters, molding clay, matches and liquid bleach on a Southwest Airlines plane which left from Raleigh-Durham on September 12. He placed them in a plastic bag along with a short note and put them in a compartment beneath a sink in the airplane's lavatory.
Two days later he went through security at Baltimore-Washington airport and put three box-cutters and the same other paraphernalia in the same location in the lavatory on another Southwest Airlines flight.
They couldn't find the really dangerous stuff, but they damn sure confiscated my spare lighter fast enough last time we flew.
Ridiculous.
Posted by Rita at October 20, 2003 02:32 PM
Comments
personally, i think they should charge the dope ... i don't care that his defense is that he was "just showing that the system still isn't fixed" ... yeah, that's a defense ... they should just charge him because . . . . well, this ain't a game ..
Posted by: Tony Rosen at October 21, 2003 12:38 AM
They did charge him, with carrying a dangerous weapon onto a plane or something like that....possible fine & up to 10 yrs. sentence.
I can see why the Play-doh wasn't detected....hardly a dangerous substance unless you're trying to get it out of the carpet. But the boxcutters should never had made it past security. That's pretty scary.
Posted by: Rita at October 21, 2003 06:20 AM