Many plastic bottles (various sizes and shapes) were found squirrelled away in a refrigerating chamber.
These are the types of things PROHIBITTED on a plane, so God only KNOWS what defarious uses were planned for them!
probing and reporting back.
As for the guys worried about having your soldering irons confiscated...
you're right... it is an invasion of privacy. However if we're all on the same page that this is a "war", as has happened in the past, civil rights will be curtailed and the "greater good" will be served.
sounds like the guy was making "something"... HMDT or nitric acid for later use.... I realize that some of you are just being sarcastic, but a lot of folks in the service know that with gasoline, latex, aluminum powder and other stuff like a broken light bulb, pack of matches and fishing line...you could really hurt somebody.
I sure wouldn't want my neighbor to have a "little hobby" that included improvised munitions. Most of us would agree if we saw our neighbor or stranger across the hallway sitting inside of his house with batteries taped together, hooking up cell phone and putting gelatinous or latex filler BACK into a tube or 55 gallon drum that just maybe we'd be a little curious.
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather the cops or FBI come by and say "hello, whatcha doing?" .... and if you're just making a cake or a big life size mask and activating it with a trip wire or delayed initiator.....neat, we're sorry for bothering you, continue with your hobby....
of course that's only my opinion, and I could be wrong.