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[rone]

Plastic explosives placed inside the luggage of a French air passenger as part of a botched police training exercise were still missing last night.

A bag containing 150g of explosives was deliberately placed in the luggage of an unknown traveller at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, but sniffer dogs undergoing training failed to spot it.

(subject attribution dammit: Ed Gaillard)

Comments

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

I passed through de Gaulle in the summer of 2003, and this doesn't surprise me a bit. When I put my bag up on the conveyor to pass it through the x-ray machine, the security rastafarian wasn't even looking at his monitor, he was too busy chatting with another guard. I stood and watched him from the other side of the gate, and he let about 10 people pass through without a single glance at his screen. When I mentioned it to one of the counter agents, they just shrugged.

And on a slightly-related note, a colleague of mine had passed through that same terminal at de Gaulle about 15 minutes prior to its structural collapse earlier this year.

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

My experience at de Gaulle has been far different from yours. One incident happened when I arrived at CDG. I had just gone through Customs and the security dogs started humping my bag - I had chocolate in my bags to give to my friends as gifts. They pulled me aside and took me in a room and proceeded to empty the entire contents of my bag and inspect everything.

Another time, flying out of CDG, I checked in at Air France and got my boarding pass, and then told them I wanted to have my rucksack wrapped with plastic. The security guard watched me stand in line for 20 minutes, get my boarding pass, go get my bag wrapped (and pay 3 Euro) and then walk back over to Air France so I could check it in. That's when he decided he wanted to inspect my bag. He cut through the plastic and opened everything, and even had the nerve to flirt with me while he touched my underwear.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

He...even had the nerve to flirt with me while he touched my underwear

Oh, ick. And he was probably wondering how on earth were you able to resist his charm and savoir faire. Maybe you should've slipped a bit of that chocolate into his back pocket, so those security dogs could have their way with him later.

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

I heard that ONE spotted it and another didn't, so they were gonna try and send it through again, and that's when they realized ...it was gone.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Hey, if they can lose explosives, I wonder if they communicate effectively to all personnel which passengers are getting explosives placed in their bags, or if random folks are unwittingly labelled terrorists by mistake. Ha ha!

-- Schwa ---

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I know ;-) They suck ;-)

Thib ;-)

[bungo.livejournal.com]

Great. Passed through Paris Orly this morning. Didn't get asked if I packed my own bags. Haven't found any suspicious packages in my baggage yet.