Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
No, we should be demanding to know why there wasn't a terminal dump.
If the items were thought to be 'pipe bombs', necessitating a summons to the bomb squad, the area should have been cleared. Doesn't sound like an Abundance of Caution® at all; an abundance of something else. Clowns.
+1. They were either a threat, in which case this was handled incorrectly, or they were not a threat, in which case this was handled incorrectly. Either way, this was handled pretty much the same way the TSA handles everything else, incorrectly.