Oh come on. A bit of quality writing, complete with drama to draw people into the story, and everyone is up in arms? Is sarcasm really not understood in this country? The person writing this is not re-telling a factual account of what happened. That was clear from the first sentence in the "story".

How about "I approached the gate, they did a pat-down, and I continued on my journey as normal". Hmm - I got bored just reading that myself - I can see why they embellished the story significantly.