Posted on 09/11/2014 10:50:16 PM PDT by BlackVeil
A suitcase containing plastic explosive was accidentally left at Sydney airport for three weeks by the Australian federal police in a serious training blunder.
The AFP released a statement on Thursday apologising for mistakenly leaving a training device at the airport – containing 230g of plastic explosive ....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“Don’t mind the 8 lbs of explosives here. Nothing to see folks. Move along”.
I’m wondering why they even said anything since nothing happened.
Well said.
A horrid, suspicious person might think that package was waiting to be picked up by someone or other. Which can’t be true ...
Because if that were true, then the rot goes deep.
Indeed! The AFP was obliged to comment, when the bag was accidentally given to a lady in replacement of her own bag, which had been damaged. She then took it off to her home town of Cessnock, and then discovered the package, took it to the police station, and ... great uproar arose.
DUGH!
DUGH!
real plastic explosive not a dummy?
“Don’t mind the 8 lbs of explosives here. Nothing to see folks. Move along”.
Mistakes happen, but this is one mistake no one is allowed to make, under any circumstances. People need to join the unemployment line over this.
Some govt leaders would rather look stupid than spread panic. I don’t know a thing about bomb training, but practicing with real explosives in a real airport? I’d risk investing in desert swamp land before I believed that one at face value.
Even bomb sniffing dogs can be trained outside of airports, and only trace amounts are needed anyway — maybe not always? This is nuts. But I’m no expert.
Seems to me that your govt is keeping a foiled attack ‘hush hush’.
I’ve seen that kind of thing happen multiple times in my own country, except we’re talking about TWA800, a flock of birds that allegedly caused another commercial jet to crash, and a man who happened to blow up outside of a football stadium in the midwest [OK or Kansas? One of those states.] Heck, even the notorious anthrax letters were most likely Islamo-terror, and look at the contortions they went through to presume that the post-9-11 sniper was not Islamic. [Oh and our ‘workplace violence’ killer at the base — Fort Hood if fuzzy memory serves.]
They use real because the dogs aren’t trained to find training aids, they are trained to find real.
When I was in the air force the airforce dogs were trained in our dorm. A friend came back to his room and noticed his mattress was out of place. There was a stick of dynamite under his mattress that had been forgotten.
Did anyone get an article 15 over it? Where I worked, getting two C-5s nose to nose on the ground, would cost someone a case of Coronas, but getting them nose to nose in the air, was something no one wanted to think about.
No article 15. We also found drug samples on occasion. Our commander finally banned them after they allowed their dogs to break things and left a pile of dog poop in the middle of a room.
The story is that they were training sniffer-dogs.
high terror alert
now we know why
Yes, I can see how they could tend to wear out their welcome.
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