Originally Posted by cordelli

Yet if the first guy had just tossed them in the trash, nobody would care.

But because for whatever reason they were put aside they were considered to be so dangerous that a TSA bomb expert was called in who took only two hours to arrive.

The NY Post has a picture of them



And says

The screeners promptly called their supervisor. He questioned the passenger, who claimed the pipes were for homeopathic medicine.

The supervisor bought the story and let the man board his flight without taking down any information, the sources said.

The flier left the pipes behind and it wasn’t until 3 p.m., with the devices still lying around the screening area, when the supervisor finally realized he should notify someone.

He called a TSA bomb specialist — who took another two hours to arrive.


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