Jinx wrote:
>> Standing in line at LA International to board flight to NZ, an
>> alarm clock goes off in packed luggage
>>     
>
> Yeah, that's the way I'd have made it. Priority at 00:00 ? Go
> bang ? No no no no no. Ring the bell first
>
> I'm not a monster after all. Let the alarm clock do what it
> wants to do just one last time ;-)
>
>   
The only thing I'll say with that one is alarm clocks are a staple of 
the IED manufacturer, the genuine kind. However step one of these kind 
of things is usually "remove speaker".
If somebody wants to put a bomb on a plane they will do it. About the 
only thing thats going to stop them is a suspicious person looking for 
people sweating in the middle of winter. All this other security stuff 
is just an excuse to make people sweat as far as i can tell.

Only once you start putting people through the x-ray (and then that said 
x-ray uses a really good spectrum to look for odd chemicals in places) 
could you stop a *passenger* putting a bomb on a plane. Your still 
screwed as far as ground-crew or packages are concerned.
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