even tho you ran the risk, of causing a terminal dump and becoming one of the numbers in
the tsa weekly body count thread,

, a ^ for reporting it but also a
major 
for the tso('s) you spoke with for not doing anything. now, if it was me, i would have pushed it to a leo and also notified the media. yes, it would have been a major pita for anyone flying thru atl at that time, a point has to be made