Wire Bra shuts down Delta terminal at La Guardia?

[DoYouEverWonder]

La Guardia Terminal Reopens After Security Breach


Wed December 24, 2003 07:35 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Delta Air Lines terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was closed for about 90 minutes on Wednesday due to a security breach, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said.

Just before 6 p.m. a woman passenger set off a metal detector in the terminal, TSA spokeswoman Amy Von Walter told Reuters. The passenger continued into the terminal before she could receive a secondary screening with a hand-wand, Von Walter said.

"We were not able to locate her, which is why the entire concourse was evacuated," she said. "Airport police swept the concourse and, as a precautionary measure, every single passenger from that terminal is being re-screened."

The terminal was reopened shortly after 7 p.m. once the re-screening process was complete. The security breach caused delays of up to an hour for about 10 flights, according to Joshua Smith, a spokesman for Delta, the No. 3 U.S. airline.


Can someone buy Ridge and the Homeland Security folks a clue. Almost every bra in America has metal under-wires (try to buy one that doesn't, it about impossible). Maybe if Tommy stopped listening to Intel from his private sources rather that the CIA, he wouldn't be running around like Chicken Little, yelling Code Orange, Code Orange.


Edit: Based on info in a thread in LBN, I read a little more into this story than is really there. Another post said it was a wire bra but it seems that that info is not based on anything that was reported in the news. Something the woman was wearing set off the metal detector, it is unclear whether or not it was her bra.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Good news the sensors are sensitive

bad news, they did not do their job...

Very bad, news, seems they have no clue

Oh my

This is actually FUNNY

[Robb]

12. Actually very sensitive....

I carry in my wallet a razor-thin titanium washer, from the SR-71 crash I found. It never sets off the walk-through detector, but interestingly over thanksgiving I got a secondary check, with the wand, and the wand found that thing.

Quite the tool, that wand.

[Coldgothicwoman]

2. Am I not seeing

where it said it was a wire bra? I think I may have had too much to drink lol. :)

[silverweb]

3. Where do you get bra?

:shrug:

Nowhere in that article is a bra or an underwire mentioned. It just says "a woman" set off the metal detector.

On edit: Typos.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Actually, I picked that tibit up in LBN

I've added a note to my first post to clarify the story. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

[silverweb]

6. Okay, thanks.

That was a tad confusing originally. :)

[Bozita]

4. Underwire bra keeps Delta's hangers full

The article needs a title change.

[The Undertaker]

7. My f*&^ing gawd....

it was a friggen bra, for Christs sakes. See what happens with the paranoia about terrorism? Geez.....I could do a better job at this type of shit than the joke we call the Dept. of Homeland Security.

[Dr. Wu]

11. Don't forget, these morons are now federal employees

with fat federal pensions and job security to the extent they can hardly get fired, unless they kill somebody on the job.

[htuttle]

8. "She shoved a pair of 45's in my face..."

"She had a gun, too..."

:spank:

[buycitgo]

9. since there's some confusion surrounding this story.......

wouldn't 38s be a little more plausible?

[Dookus]

10. well...

whether it was a bra or a metal hip or steel-tipped shoes, the woman should be jailed.

You do NOT walk through a security check, hear the beep, and keep walking.

She delayed THOUSANDS of people nationwide because her stupid antic.

[LeahMira]

13. That's a bit TOO sensitive...

... and it's really not the business of any screeners what sort of underwear anyone is wearing. But when I wear my hair up my barette and bobby pins set off the sensors too. I guess I might have a bomb in my French twist, eh?

Ladies...wear a pony tail when traveling. And no bras.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. I work with a women

who had to go through an entire bodily search because her wire bra set off the sensor. It was humiliating to say the least. But like a bunch of sheep we allow them to do this in the name of national security Yet, are we anymore secure? I don't think so. Not until we get the terrorists that live in the WH out of power.

[SheilaT]

15. I'm constantly enraged at the idiocy

of airport security these days. My bras have set off the detector and it's totally ludicrous.

Now that I always have to take my shoes off, I'm seriously considering letting my personal hygiene slip a little. I think EVERYONE should enjoy the experience along with me.