People were sent scrambling without their shoes when an x-ray machine caught on fire at LaGuardia Airport. It happened late Sunday afternoon at Terminal C. It resulted in plenty of smoke, confusion, delayed flights and some very long lines. An electrical fire in the x-ray machine took it out just before 5:00 p.m.
One passenger said, “It was scary. My first thought was why is it so foggy in here?” That fog was actually smoke, so the Port Authority decided to evacuate the 600 people in the terminal. And if you ask some of passengers I the Terminal, it happened fast.
“…to evacuate the 600 people in the terminal. And if you ask some of passengers I the Terminal, it happened fast.”
The implication being…
Some of them dawdled, possibly hoping to snatch some duty free at less than regular price?
OPT OUT….OPT OUT.
The TSA always manages to impress everyone. I didn’t say in a good way.
TSA == FAIL
It must have been one hot lady…
Clearly a passenger was wearing aluminum foil underwear. This probably voided the warranty
Poetic Justice
Sheila
survivingsurvivalism.com
Well Fuck me… 🙂
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has finally decided is had enough with all these people moving around all the time.
They’re setting the airport terminals on fire.
Now there’s no more problem. Nobody can get around.
I’m just waiting until they start blowing up bridges and overpasses and tearing up railroad tracks.
That should keep the oligarchs safe in their hideouts; like Larry Ellison’s private Hawaiian island and their little ranches, like Montana.
Ha, ha. —Hey myPod–what is your basic problem with Ellison and Turner?
A. That YOU aren’t up there WITH them?
or
B. That such wealth accumulation is allowed at all?
Hey, I’m almost 60 and have secured enough cash and real estate to see my wife and myself off…
As Rhett Butler said: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
But I feel sorry for all the pathetic urchans who are going to have to try to survive after I’m gone.
They’re going to be systematically screwed from the get go by the 1%ers and the 12,400.
Got any kids? I feel sorry for you and for them.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Its just that the accumulation of so much wealth in the hands of so very few means that there’s nothing left for the aspiring multitude.
Don’t think the rich will share, that’s not how they got rich. They hire accountants to insure that they dont share.
The rich don’t pay… You’re supposed to offer your goods and services and pray that there’s enough of a bourgeoisie left who will want to kiss the oligarch’s asses by buying the same shit.
Its Romney for the win, and us for the loss.
Ever going to give us a source for your 12,400 billionaires claim? You are no longer saying billionaire I notice.
I”ll put you down as a “B.”
Good Man.
I’ll bet its tar encased power transformers went up. Why else would the thing catch fire? Something had to fuel it.
This is rather ironic. All the years this thing has been scanning for explosives and weapons. And it turns out to be the biggest hazard to human life, than anything it never found. But of course what it’s real purpose is, is to protect the planes. Not the people. So it’s Ok if the Xray machine blows up in the passenger terminal. The jet planes were all spared.
This reminds me of when I was in the USAF, and a smoke detector inside the shop’s AC system, caught fire. So naturally, it detected itself causing some smoke, and set off the alarm. And we had to evacuate the building. But in the four years I was there, nothing else ever caught fire. Just the AC’s cheap smoke detector. 🙂
There they go again… The TSA, cooking their hot dogs in the scanners. When will they learn!!!
I feel safer already.
Let the states run security. You have Orlando airport kicking TSA out, Texas passed a no groping law, etc.
Already we have seen Homeland expand TSA, while dropping a program to have states check immigration status of people they arrest. They aren’t happy that the Supreme Court let Arizona keep their law.
This is just the sort of thing that happens when you actually plug the security equipment IN.
TSA= Them Stupid Asses.
Hotdogs in the waveguide are yummy