T...T...Terror !!!! Another airport evacuation in paranoid nation !!!!

[marmar]

MN airport reopens after suspicious bag cleared
By AMY FORLITI, AP

2 hours ago


MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has reopened after a portion was briefly evacuated when a police dog detected a suspicious bag on a luggage carousel.

The Transportation Security Administration says a police bomb squad was called to the scene and three security checkpoints were shut down for about an hour before reopening Tuesday afternoon.

Vehicle traffic into the terminal was stopped as the bag was investigated. The bag was cleared and the airport's concourses and checkpoints reopened about an hour after the dog noticed the bag about 1:45 p.m. No other details were immediately available.


http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100105/US.Minneapolis.Airport.Evacuation/

[MNDemNY]

1. The bag contained beef jerky.

Lots of beef jerky.

[NYC_SKP]

10. NItrates/nitrites may have set them off. n/t

[KG]

2. it's Bacon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErapf79rqM

[lunatica]

3. Would you be quite so cynical if the dog sniffed a bomb and you were there

ready to board a plane?

Or do you think the dog just wants attention?

[marmar]

4. As a matter of fact, yes I would be. As I was when I flew after 9/11.

..... and was in an airport during just such a scare.


Happy?

[lunatica]

12. Happy? What does that mean

Who's stopping anyone from flying? I'm referring to the way you're being so cavalier about potentially serious issues. Do you think the dog is in on some secret to fool people?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Uh, if a bomb-sniffing dog finds something of interest on a baggage carousel...

...that seems like a pretty good reason to evacuate the immediate area until you're sure it's not a bomb.

[rgbecker]

6. The country has gone to the Dogs!

Billions spent feeding them, and this is thanks we get!

[malaise]

7. That's three airports in one day

This is great for the economy - fear fear fear

[likesmountains 52]

8. My backpack got singled out by a fruit sniffing dog once when I was flying back from

South America. Sure enough, there were a few pieces of foreign fruit in there. If they train the dog to sniff stuff out, they have to respond when the dog indicates it found something.

[gateley]

9. I think they did the right thing - they had a legit cause for concern if a trained

dog indicated it had found something.

My concern is that we're so jumpy now, they don't have to do ANYTHING except sit back and laugh at us when we go off the deep end about a 'suspicious' Christmas ornament, for instance.

[femrap]

11. I gotta say that I'm much

more fearful of the rich white Corp boyz calling the shots in this country. Now we get no Medicare buy-in or Public Option.