So here is how bringing that device through the airport went down. In all cases, the device was in a taped up brown box, inside a zippered up beat up looking duffel bag. Very inconspicuous right?? lol
John Wayne Airport (Santa Ana)
Put the duffel bag on the scanner. Duffel back goes through the scanner. Not so much as a word or a suspicion raised. We went through the John Wayne airport security on two separate occasions on 2 separate days of the week with exactly the same results. No one cared.
The scary part is I fly out of John Wayne a lot, and the ease with which it went through security is a little scary. Luckily though it is a smaller airport which would be a less likely target for a real bomb.
San Jose Airport
Put the duffel bag on the scanner. The security person scrutinizes it a little bit, and then asks to swab down the package with the bomb detector. They swab the package, asked what it was, and then let it through.
Not bad, at least they were curious and did a swab down.
Seattle Tacoma Airport
Put the duffel bag on the scanner. The bag goes through the scanner, and sets off the alarm! Security people ask what it is, and then open the box. They pull it out and swab it down. Meanwhile we are subject to the full pat-down search and scan with the wand. Then they put the package through the scanner again this time with all 8 security personnel crowded around the little screen watching it run back and forth through the scanner. In the end they deemed it safe, but not after spending a good 20 minutes checking out the device and asking us exactly what it was for and what it did.
Seattle has the best security of the 3 IMO. We did almost miss our flight because of the delay, but it's good that they paid attention because it really IS a suspicious package.
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INteresating! VERY interesting! Glad you didn't miss your plane!
I'm never flying out of SNA again.
What exactly IS that thing? Makes me wonder where all that homeland security money is going that the tax payers spend?
So, you have a habit of contsructing hoax, Improvised Explosive Devices and then introduce them into an airport environment? You do realize that what you are doing is illegal, right? Whether it's a real device or hoax (fake) it is still a crime. The thing that amazes me the most is that you will brag about it on the internet. Either you really didn't do this or you really broke a huge law. Which one is it? I would like to here you publicly admit you committed a felony crime.
Flat Coke -- It is actually a set of prototype speakers we are developing at work. We were taking it with us to go on customer demos.
Anonymous -- Nothing of the sort. We were on a business trip and this just happened to be the product we were demonstrating. It just looks suspicious because it was hand-made set of speakers.
When we looked at our device before the trip we anticipated that we would get hassled by security. But we had a legitimate reason to bring it with us.
I was surprised that the airports really didn't inquire much about it (except SEA-TAC).
Anonymous thinks he's so smart. "Ah-ha! I'm ON to you!" I had people who thought they were "so smart" leave comments like that on my blog and they were totally way off-base. They're also notorious for trying to look smart while not knowing how to spell.
Ano,
By the way you are describing your actions it sounds like you were purposely creating this device to see how "far" you could take it. In a way, that is what you did. However, I detract my statement and stand corrected, if you are telling the truth that is.
...as for "I'm soo scared"
Most people who pick out the spelling errors of others are the ones who live in their mommies basement with impotency problems. It's interesting how you are so quick to pick out the small things. Notice I said "small." Have a good day.
LOL James... that is scary. But then again, those airport workers are mostly morons with only a high school education, so not surprising...
and anonymous... LMAO... probably one of the airport workers who didn't question it!!!
James... funny how anonymous is.. well "anonymous" ... if he/she/it knew how to read and had any intelligence at all, it would know that you brought this on a business trip and was just surprised (because of it's look and suspicious packaging) how the dumb airport workers didn't question it (even though it was just a prototype and not anything you intentionally took on a plane to hoax people)..
what a moron!!
Hey James.
Reading Jordan's comment about Anonymous, I had to go back to your post to double-check, but yes, you DID say that it was a BUSINESS trip and that it was a prototype you and coworkers had to take on the business trip, so there was nothing implying that you were trying to hoax airports so that you could blog about it and laugh that you're above the law. Not even "in a way, that's what you were doing."
Anonymous totally did jump the gun without reading all the information, but at least he found the spellcheck the 2nd time. I wouldn't know about the impotence and homelife statistics of people who notice spelling errors, since I don't have erectile or penile size issues to have first-hand information like that. But somehow I doubt that all editors and writers live in their mothers' basements.
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