WorldNetDaily: 'Mouthy' traveler gets luggage blown up

Specifically, the traveler sarcastically observed to the ticket agent, "If I had a bomb, you wouldn't find it."

It was the wrong place, the wrong time, the wrong person, and the wrong mode of expression. The FBI came in, and detained the traveler long enough to make her miss her flight--but her bag had been loaded aboard. So when the plane landed (uneventfully) in San Diego, it had to taxi to a remote area of the field, where the local bomb squad searched the plane, then took her suitcase off the plane and blew it up.

So now, for running off at the mouth and making a comment she shouldn't have made, she's out of however many changes of clothing she had in the bag.

When I was in high school, and flying out of DFW and DAL (Love Field) to interview at colleges, I saw signs posted at both airports:

Comments about Guns and Bombs are Taken Seriously. Please No Jokes.

And I thought everyone understood that. Well, I guess not--but maybe now everyone will understand that. My only criticism of the Transportation Security Agency ("Thousands Standing Around!") is that they let that woman's bag get loaded aboard the aircraft. They should have taken her bag off the plane and detonated it at origin, not at destination--or better yet, made her demonstrate to everyone's satisfaction that the suitcase had no bomb in it, by having her go through it far enough away from everyone so that if it did blow, it wouldn't hurt anybody. But I see no cause of legal action by her against the government, the airline, or either airport--because comments about guns and bombs are simply not a laughing matter in this post-9/11 world.