Canadian Teen Arrested for trying to light shoe.

The Boston Globe | 2nd Week August 2002 | AP

[vannrox]

Canadian teen arrested for trying to light shoe.

PITTSburgh - A 17 year old Canadian passenger on a US Airways flight from Toronto was arrested for using a lighter on his shoe, authorities said. The teenager, who is of Iranian descent, told police he was burningloose material off his tennis shoes as the plane taxied into Pittsburgh International Airport Saturday. The youth was cited for disorderly conduct and released into custody of his father (AP).

[vannrox]

I was unable to find this on the internet. It is torn from one of the inner pages of the Boston Globe. Buried deep down and hidden.

[Black Powder]

Old news.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I wonder if he was out to scare people? Perhaps?

[mvpel]

Maybe his dad was doing a dry run for a future shoe bombing.

[clamboat]

yup, old news.

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[PoorMuttly]

At O'Hare airport, the security lady asked me to...what sounded like..."take off your fuse." I was tempted to tell her I already had taken off my fuse...but reconsidered just in time.

[Paul Atreides]

"Rotten punk!"

[mlocher]

thanks for the post. sounds like an innocent mistake. some would say, however, that teenagers are mistakes...

[muawiyah]

Yeah, old news, but notice that the kid got on the plane with a lighter!

Last Friday evening we left on a Southwest Air flight from Baltimore to Louisville.

After the random selection had been made for fat white guys to be field stripped, an Arab who had been sitting there for as long as we had bothered to acquire a boarding pass.

That meant he would not be subjected to special inspection.

Once on the plane he sat in the middle, over the wing, right near us.

When we returned (Louisville to Baltimore), my sons who were carrying some very expensive electronic and photography equipment were pulled aside for a complete field stripping operation.

I was not. I immediately moved over toward the equipment just laying there in the tubs to protect it. A supposed security agent was right there with her hands on the tubs trying to move them further away. I stopped her and we had a discussion about professional thieves and I'd love to file a complaint if her hands didn't return to her sides.

End of story.

I have ZERO confidence in the security procedures my old buddy Norm has put in place. Seems to me that all that has been done is to make life much easier for thieves, and young Arab men.