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The Straight Story

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Wed Apr 23, 2014, 07:44 PM Apr 2014

Airport police recover car with explosive, rented accidentally

An Anchorage airport police training went awry Monday when a rental car with a small quantity of explosives attached to it went missing because the rental company inadvertently allowed the car to be rented out, authorities said.

It took a few hours for police to track down the car and recover the explosives, which had been placed on the vehicle for a routine K-9 training, said Jesse Davis, chief of Airport Police and Fire at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

The driver of the rental was never in danger, Davis said, but the episode was a lesson in accountability for authorities who were supposed to keep track of the vehicle.

"It was embarrassing for the officer," Davis said.

Airport police routinely work with rental car companies to expose bomb-sniffing dogs to different environments. During the trainings, very small amounts of an explosive are used to challenge the dogs, Davis said.


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Airport police recover car with explosive, rented accidentally (Original Post) The Straight Story Apr 2014 OP
Keystone Kops K-9 Katastrophe!!! Nitwits! nt MADem Apr 2014 #1
I believe you spelled Knitwits wrong. Knuff said! chknltl Apr 2014 #3
That'll be eknuff out of you. NuclearDem Apr 2014 #5
What, you'd rather I knarked off MADem to the Grammer Knazis? chknltl Apr 2014 #8
DUzy!! nt MADem Apr 2014 #7
"Where's the car bomb, sarge?" "I think we rented it to some tourists..." pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #6
Was that show on TNT? GreatCaesarsGhost Apr 2014 #9
It's Arlington Road, a 1999 thriller about domestic terrorism pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #10
i guess my post was a dud then. GreatCaesarsGhost Apr 2014 #13
I get it now, lol! pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #14
Yikes!!! LisaLynne Apr 2014 #2
Epic fail. NuclearDem Apr 2014 #4
Good One...nt Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #11
Is the officer responsible going to be fired? Of course not. Taitertots Apr 2014 #12
 

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
12. Is the officer responsible going to be fired? Of course not.
Wed Apr 23, 2014, 09:38 PM
Apr 2014

It must be nice to be a police officer. You can be negligent and disregard protocol as much you want without facing any reprimand.

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