By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 23-year-old armed man who was arrested Sunday at a North Carolina airport after President Obama took off appears to be harmless and was nothing more than a “cop wannabe’, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Airport police at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Sunday arrested Joseph Sean…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the latest complications in airport security. The Detroit Free Press reported that a body of Islamic scholars known as the Figh Council of North America has issued a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from passing through airport body scanners. The paper reported that the ruling, known as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON— Ok, here’s another reason to stay in shape and stop hiding behind those baggy clothes. More airport screeners are about to acquire Superman powers. USA Today reports that Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 security machines at airport checkpoints that will let screeners peek under passengers’ clothes….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, it’s always a little awkward when someone from the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees our airports, gets arrested. But that’s what happened Friday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Associated Press reports that airport authorities arrested TSA agent Wanda Weems of Newark after she boarded a Continental Airlines flight…
Had a few extra donuts on that vacation? Hoping no one will notice if you wear that baggy shirt? Well, the new body scanners being used on an experimental basis at some U.S. airports apparently can see right through the clothing. Good for security. Not so good for privacy. And so much for hiding. Some…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Who in their right mind brings a gun to the airport these days? Well, in this post-Sept. 11 era, despite heightened airport security, the number of firearms seized at U.S. airport checkpoints jumped to 833 in 2008, up nearly 10 percent from a year ago, according to the Transportation…
