Heaven give me strength. Airport screeners find sharp things hidden in a young Bulgarian’s luggage — but that’s not all!
Robert Johnson, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman . . . said the fact that the man’s one-way ticket was purchased over the Internet in August also raised suspicion.
(Hat tip to Rachel Lucas.)
For at least a decade, paying cash at the counter has been a confession that you’re a drug smuggler, and any cash you happen to have on you is forfeit. Now, if you buy your ticket on the Net a month in advance, you’re a terrorist. Is that nice Mr Mineta in bed with the traditional travel agents, or what?
I’m going to visit Dad in a few weeks (for my birthday, which is also my stepbrother’s; he’ll be 21). Dad bought the tickets, over a month in advance, on the Net — relieving my worry that the Keystone Kounterterrorists might hassle me for nothing.