[meenie]

The airport screeners should be on the lookout for a masculine looking attendant with a heavy beard carrying a large purse containing C-4 explosive. The alert status should be elevated to red,red, purple,green over and out.

[calvin sun]

LOL: a poorly worded headline

What actually is the situation:
- the flight attendant is still around, but the uniform has disappeared
- the flight attendant has disappeared, but the uniform is there

Obviously they mean the former, but the headline could imply the latter as well.

[pyx]

The airport screeners should be on the lookout for a masculine looking attendant with a heavy beard carrying a large purse containing C-4 explosive.

I know you were only joking above but, given that there have been 19 year old FEMALE suicide (homicide) bombers and given the very large moslem population around the Detroit area, the humor is somehow eluding me.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The 5 o'clock shadow, turban, and extremely hairly legs would be a dead giveaway. But that would be profiling and verboten. Therefore, the alert will be to look out for someone that couldn't possibly be a terrorist like an 80 year old CMOH winner or a red-haired Army Captain traveling in uniform under orders.