Suspicious Object Found on Flight from Minnesota

KSTP.com ^ | 6/23/11 | Leslie Rolander/AP

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Police are questioning how a strange object got on a Delta Airlines flight that arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from Minnesota.

Authorities told The Star-Ledger of Newark the object was wedged between seats 21B and 21C. No one had been assigned the seats.

The object had the body of a clear pen, with an electrical button trigger and a nail and alligator clip protruding from it. A battery was held by electrical tape, and next to it was a flashlight top.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Obviously, the missing triggering device for the 'Unda Pants Bomber'.

[driftdiver]

sounds like a prank

[bigbob]

jeez, you can find stuff like that on my workbench any time...

[CGASMIA68]

minimum wagers clean the planes....probly there for weeks...

[pallis]

Some Amish fellow slipped by while the TSA people were busy patting down a 3 year old.

[BerniesFriend]

Suspicious Object Found on Flight from Minnesota

sigh..write your own al franken joke here....

[brownsfan]

Minnesota? Isn’t that becoming a destination for muslims?

Sounds like a proof of concept to me.

[353FMG]

Must have been placed there by a TSA agent.

After all, the passengers are all clean — they have been fully searched and groped by them.

[I see my hands]

"electrical button trigger"

Oh, one of those.

[McGruff]

Bachmann’s Fault?

[mbynack]

Sounds like a home made test light for checking continuity.

[Pharmboy]

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Probably, but, how could it have possibly gotten past the crack TSA screeners?

[EGPWS]

The object had the body of a clear pen, with an electrical button trigger and a nail and alligator clip protruding from it. A battery was held by electrical tape, and next to it was a flashlight top.

Oh, one of those.

It's just a Tungsten Cowhide Turbo Encabulator.

[Kartographer]

What a bunch of ignorant infidels! It is clearly a religous artifact belonging to a faithful follower the that Great religion of Peace Islam.

[Yo-Yo]

Something like this?:

[Da Coyote]

Don’t worry. The ever-vigilant TSA managed to snare at least 10 snow globes that day.

[Mr. K]

It is not it is a Cremulent Disgronificator

[Paperdoll]

Any object, suspicious or not, should hold finger prints. Were all the passengers fingerprinted upon exiting the plane?

[MestaMachine]

Ya, that’s what I thought too. I am sitting here looking at one.