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August 11, 2005

OKC Plane Bomb?

Federal authorities have arrested a Norman, Oklahoma man they allege tried to board a plane with a bomb.

FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said federal agents arrested Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., 24, at about 9:30 a.m. Dreyling was going through a security checkpoint when a Transportation Security Administration employee noticed something suspicious in his bag on the X-ray machine.

Johnson said the suspicious item appeared to be an explosive device. Federal sources said security officials found a CO2 cartridge with a black-powder detonator and a wire in the man's carry-on bag. They're calling it an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).

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Dreyling's father said that he believes the device was a homemade firecracker made during a recent family vacation.

Whatever it is, why on earth would anyone try to take it in their carry-on?

Duh.

Posted by Rita at August 11, 2005 02:32 AM

Comments

Perhaps this is an application of the old theory that one should always carry a bomb on board - after all, how often have you heard of a flight being canceled because they found _two_ bombs on board?

(I don't believe it either, but it makes as much sense as anything else I've heard.)

Posted by: CGHill at August 11, 2005 04:22 PM

I've certainly forgotten things were in my carry-on that shouldn't have been, so that excuse is at least plausible. But then I don't carry around homemade fireworks either.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2005 05:10 AM