Xbox 360 Bomb threat at a New York Airport
Closed Published December 28th, 2005 in Gaming, TechnologyA passenger toting an Xbox 360 in a carry-on case sparked a terror alert at MacArthur Airport on Long Island yesterday, forcing a terminal to be evacuated. Officials say the Chicago-bound flier, worried that his game console might be swiped if he checked it, instead put it in a metal case that he carried through security checkpoints. At 12:15 p.m., the container passed through an X-ray machine, and screeners thought it might have held a bomb.
“The package looked to be suspicious with wires running through it,” said airport spokeswoman Michele Remsen. Officials evacuated the west wing and called in the bomb squad. Officers examined the case and deemed it harmless.
Airport worker Kimberley Edwards, 17, who’d been on the job for just three days, said the incident was “frightening.”
“Of course I thought it was a terrorist threat,“she said. [NY Post]
I used BugMeNot to login to get the full NY Post article which I have put above. I have one thing to say — oh my god!
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