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Old Mar 17, 2014, 3:07 pm
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DeafBlonde
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
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Originally Posted by TheGolfWidow
So they closed just one lane because they figured it was a really, really small green-aid??
The azFamily.com news article states:

This time she says Transportation Security Administration agents shut down lane 6 at the Southwest Terminal for nearly an hour as they called in a bomb expert to deal with the offending bottle they said looked like a grenade.
I wonder who this "bomb expert" was. Was it a TSA "bomb expert"? Was it the local law enforcement "bomb expert"? I doubt it was local law enforcement as they would have laughed in the TSOs faces.

My speculation (and this is purely speculation since the article didn't report that fact) is that the "bomb expert" was from TSA and knew someone who would like to have an expensive bottle of perfume, or he/she wanted to keep it.
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