airport security plants explosives in luggage

Some officials at an international European airport come up with the funny idea to put explosives in bags of passengers who don’t know about this, in order to check the security of the airport.

Security finds explosives. After a hard day of work, the conversation maybe goes like this:

“Hey guys, good job. By the way, did we actally find all explosives we put into the luggage?”
- “Not sure sir, we didn’t count how many we put in. Around ten, I presume?”
“Oh well, should be fine really. It’s just explosives in the luggage of random innocent travellers. What could possibly go wrong?”

Or perhaps like this?

“Hey guys, funny thing huh, we missed one, hehe.”
- “Ye well, lol. Wonder what will happen?”
“Haha, the person will get arrested I guess. Let’s go to a bar and get wasted.”
- “Sure.”

Now comes the part where it gets less funny, because that actually happened. RTI.IE reports that Bratislava Airport Security put eight explosives in luggage of unsuspecting passengers, and failed to detect all – leading to a major incident at Dublin Airport this morning.

The explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband planted by the authorities in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava Airport in Slovakia last weekend as part of a test of security procedures.

Seven were detected by airport security, but the eighth – 90g of research development explosive – was put in the luggage of a Slovakian electrician who lives and works in Dublin.

The 49-year-old unwittingly brought the material to Dublin when he returned from Christmas holidays.

(via fefe)