Pepto Paranoia
link Men Held By Dutch Said to Be Unlikely to Plot Attack Update1 – Bloomberg.com.
It’s all a misunderstanding. The circumstantial evidence is something you’d find in a Seinfeld episode. Two Yemeni men, both on FBI databases hop on board planes to Amsterdam. Purely by coincidence, their luggage is found to contain cellphones taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle. “Officer, I can explain…” In addition, watches strapped together along with numerous knives and box cutters were dismissed as ‘no evidence’ of any terrorist intents. Luckily for our heroes, the map of Amsterdam with an X marking a spot labelled ‘kaboom’ was left inadvertently at a McDonald’s before they boarded.
Also luckily, our heroes were not caught wearing dangerous items like belt buckles, wedding rings, coins, prosthetic limbs or wheelchairs which are all high on the dangerous items list of airport screeners. Pepto Bismol bottles with cellphones strapped to them are so much more benign, how else do people transport them? In fact, this is probably the best way to get bottles of shampoo or contact lens fluids through the checkpoints. “It’s ok Joe, there’s a cellphone strapped to the bottle, it’s all fine…Just to be sure though, check the grandmother for rings and pendants…and her walker too…”