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Smoking Suitcase Found in Ariz. Airport
Breitbart ^ | Nov 13, 2007 | AP

Posted on 11/13/2007 11:24:51 AM PST by RDTF

PHOENIX (AP) - A smoking suitcase was spotted Tuesday in the cargo area at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, airport officials said. The suitcase was in the cargo hold of a US Airways plane headed to San Antonio when it started emitting smoke, said Claire Simeone, an airport spokeswoman. The plane was moved to a less busy area while authorities investigated the suitcase on the tarmac.

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The Phoenix Fire Department called in a hazard materials team and the owner of the suitcase is being questioned by police, Rodriguez said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: airport; airportsecurity; batteries; lotion; perfume; phoenix; phx; smoking; smokingnonsmoking; suitcase; tsa
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1 posted on 11/13/2007 11:24:54 AM PST by RDTF
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To: RDTF

No Smoking In The Airport!!


2 posted on 11/13/2007 11:26:51 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)
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To: RDTF

rut roh!


3 posted on 11/13/2007 11:27:18 AM PST by tiredoflaundry
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To: RDTF

This joke is too easy.


4 posted on 11/13/2007 11:27:39 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: RDTF
Cigars or cigarettes?

(Time to up the tax on smokes @ airports, I guess)

5 posted on 11/13/2007 11:27:46 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: RDTF

He packed something in Dry Ice?


6 posted on 11/13/2007 11:27:48 AM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; SheLion; Gabz; Cindy

Ping


7 posted on 11/13/2007 11:27:53 AM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: RDTF
Now that everything in the world runs on LiOn batteries, this is going to happen.
8 posted on 11/13/2007 11:28:28 AM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: tiredoflaundry

btt


9 posted on 11/13/2007 11:28:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: RDTF

What was it smoking?


10 posted on 11/13/2007 11:28:43 AM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: RDTF

Was it smiling in a relaxed sort of way?


11 posted on 11/13/2007 11:28:59 AM PST by OSHA (Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
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To: RDTF

Homeland Security released a statement saying that they were certain theat the incident was not terror related.


12 posted on 11/13/2007 11:29:43 AM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: RDTF

UPDATE

To the horror of anti smoking activists, its been learned the suitcase was smoking unfiltered Camels.

END UPDATE


13 posted on 11/13/2007 11:30:52 AM PST by Badeye (That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
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To: Deaf Smith

Was it the guys from Legal Seafoods again?


15 posted on 11/13/2007 11:32:30 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: airborne

I have no idea if your sarc is on or off!


16 posted on 11/13/2007 11:32:31 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: RDTF

Airplane 3?


17 posted on 11/13/2007 11:33:41 AM PST by JZelle
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To: RDTF
"Give me a Ticket to Chicago. One way."
"Smoking or Non-Smoking?"
"I'll take Smoking."


18 posted on 11/13/2007 11:35:13 AM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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I wonder if it had extensive previous contact with another piece of luggage . . . maybe something in pink or fur? lol.


19 posted on 11/13/2007 11:38:47 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: RDTF
Suspicious package alert...


20 posted on 11/13/2007 11:39:03 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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