Sex toy causes air security scare

[emad]

BBC News

Authorities in a regional Australian airport shut down services for an hour on Monday after a vibrating sex toy was mistaken for a bomb.
The terminal at Mackay Airport in Queensland was evacuated, causing upheaval to flight schedules.

The suspect package was later identified as a vibrator-type "adult novelty device". The incident was the latest in a string of false alerts regarding air security in Australia.

The alarm was raised by cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant, whose staff was cleaning the area near a bin where the package was found.

"It was rather disconcerting when the rubbish bin started humming furiously," she said, Australian media reported.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3712714.stm

Dildos, the new weapon of mass destruction????????
Sorry NO BBC PIC............

[frylock]

1. nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while..

it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo.. always use the indefinite article "a dildo", never "your dildo".

[Paragon]

2. D'oh.

You beat me to it. :(

"I don't own a..."

[Jack_DeLeon]

13. ROFL....

Fight Club is a great movie.

[mtnester]

14. self delete

posted to wrong response

[daleo]

3. But why was it in the rubbish bin?

Buyer's remorse?

[emad]

4. batteries not included?

or maybe thrift shop reject........

[daleo]

12. Maybe it is a disposable

One use only, then into the garbage, like a disposable camera.

[mtnester]

17. It was in the rubbish so that it would not be an embarrassment

should the bag have to be hand checked in front of God and everyone....

SECURITY - we need to hand check this bag ma'am. There is a strange looking object showing up on the scan.

I will not discuss how I know this.

[Parche]

5. airport

Ok, admit it, which DU member was in Australia??

[realFedUp]

6. Tie me kangaroo down sport.

:-)

[tonekat]

8. He died, Clyde,

...and they tanned his hide...he liked it.

[Ezlivin]

7. al Qaeda infiltrates Mile High Club?

Those bastards!

"Captain, you must land this aircraft immediately or this flight attendant will be pleasured beyond endurance!"

[BiggJawn]

9. I thought those things were supposed to CURE "Hysteria"....

...Not CAUSE it?

[Catfight]

10. The climatic scene was followed by a deep sigh of Ohhhhh. n/t

[rocktivity]

11. After getting into a taxi with a friend

I took out my camera and pressed the button that automatically rewound the film. It made a buzzing sound, and my freind said, "How many times have I told you not to use your vibrator in public?"

:headbang:
rocknation

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[amazona]

16. didn't they see Fight Club ?

I suspect after reading the other replies, I'll find out that everyone else did! :-)

[Dogmudgeon]

18. And it's not the first time

Every two or three months, a sex toy sets off a security alarm, and all the News of the Wacky columns run with it for about a week.

I'm waiting for a couple to be injured when a sex toy explodes. The stuff of John Ashcroft's (wet) dreams, I'm sure.

--bkl