Bump
Bump
Seems like something that should be addressed fairly quickly.
BUMP
A friend of mine worked at one of the airport bars, many of the bussers and cooks happened to be Russian, Ukranians, Serbs. One of them walked past security with a backpack on. He was ordered to stop, but he did not understand the command, and quite innocently continued on and disappeared. He singlehandedly shut down the airport for over three hours.
Usually this is just some idiot like that guy a few years ago who ran down the up escalator and closed down the airport for several hours. He was in a hurry to catch his plane.
You have to wonder about the security bureaucracy. I stopped in at the Museum of the American Indian yesterday at the old battery Custom House. It was swarming with security guards, and the newly installed metal detector was so sensitive that everyone had to take off their belts and go through several times.
Why would a terrorist possibly want to blow up this museum, which has relatively few visitors, when there are thousands of better targets in the city?
Been to that airport many times. It's not very large but has a spacious interior and is a hub for Delta.