Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Apparently this happened on July 20 at SAV:
https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-n...port/809929457
I'm somewhat torn on this.
On the one hand, I have to give props to the LTSO for not panicking and running away as most people would, or freezing up with indecision (as I certainly would). He kept calm and made a decision to DO something to resolve the situation.
On the other hand, aside from doing absolutely nothing, picking up a smoking carry-on and running it through the terminal to dispose of it was probably the worst thing to do in such a situation. If it's a smoking battery from a laptop or cell phone (or in this case, a vaper), then at minimum you risk severely burning yourself. But if it's an explosive or incendiary device, then the least little bit of jostling or physical contact can detonate it, putting the lives of everyone else in the area at risk from explosion, shrapnel, or fire.
Triggering an immediate evacuation of the area and calling in REAL law enforcement and fire fighters is the right decision.
Maybe he was moving it towards
one of these things? We have them at every checkpoint in BOS. Granted there's only one angle so it's hard to tell what he did with it off camera.
Granted it's not the first time it happened,
there was the BDO in MCO, who took another burning bag, (except it was a burning Raspberry Pi board) and ducked it behind the nearby massive column to mitigate the potential blast had it been it an IED.
Thankfully in this case, everyone scattered as soon as they noticed it.
Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Wait, WHAT!? You mean to say that after a passenger's bag caught fire on the screening belt they didn't even shut down the checkpoint to investigate!?
TSA at its finest.
*shrug*
Had a vape battery go off in baggage claim here at BOS. Owner noticed it smoking and decided "maybe I should bail". Then someone else put it out. Practically everyone just stood there. MSP and Massport Fire and they didn't appear to shut down the baggage claim area.