Pennsylvania Man arrested after explosive found in luggage at US airport

essentialsaltes · Mar 2, 2023

FBI agents have arrested a man who allegedly brought an explosive device to a Pennsylvania airport on Monday.
Mark Muffley, 40, is accused of putting the device in his checked bag for a flight to Orlando, Florida.
He fled the airport after his name was called over the loud speaker, agents say, and was arrested at home later that evening.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say they spotted the device during a routine screening.

iluvatar5150 · Mar 2, 2023

essentialsaltes said:
FBI agents have arrested a man who allegedly brought an explosive device to a Pennsylvania airport on Monday.
Mark Muffley, 40, is accused of putting the device in his checked bag for a flight to Orlando, Florida.
He fled the airport after his name was called over the loud speaker, agents say, and was arrested at home later that evening.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say they spotted the device during a routine screening.

Antifa is stepping things up, I see.

durangodawood · Mar 2, 2023

essentialsaltes said:
FBI agents have arrested a man who allegedly brought an explosive device to a Pennsylvania airport on Monday.
Mark Muffley, 40, is accused of putting the device in his checked bag for a flight to Orlando, Florida.
He fled the airport after his name was called over the loud speaker, agents say, and was arrested at home later that evening.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials say they spotted the device during a routine screening.

What was he going to blow up? The plane... or the Epcot Center?

essentialsaltes · Mar 2, 2023

iluvatar5150 said:
Antifa is stepping things up, I see.

Someone has to blow up Walt Disney's frozen Nazi-sympathetic corpse in its environmental chamber beneath Sleeping Beauty's Castle in Disney World, and this was just the guy to do it.

iluvatar5150 · Mar 2, 2023

durangodawood said:
What was he going to blow up? The plane... or the Epcot Center?

I kind of wish somebody would do something with Epcot. The food/nations bit is fine and the fireworks are cool (if you don't think about all the heavy metals they spew), but the whole Tomorrowland section is an insulting joke.

durangodawood · Mar 2, 2023

iluvatar5150 said:
...but the whole Tomorrowland section is an insulting joke.

It should be protein tank farms and sketchy Blade Runner streetscapes.

iluvatar5150 · Mar 2, 2023

durangodawood said:
It should be protein tank farms and sketchy Blade Runner streetscapes.

Heck, even a print out of their profit-maximization algorithms would be more interesting than a 50yo animatronic display about the future of microwave ovens.

Desk trauma · Mar 2, 2023

The real story is the the TSA was able to identify a bomb.

Arcangl86 · Mar 2, 2023

iluvatar5150 said:
I kind of wish somebody would do something with Epcot. The food/nations bit is fine and the fireworks are cool (if you don't think about all the heavy metals they spew), but the whole Tomorrowland section is an insulting joke.

We should give Russia a pavilion.

durangodawood · Mar 2, 2023

iluvatar5150 said:
Heck, even a print out of their profit-maximization algorithms would be more interesting than a 50yo animatronic display about the future of microwave ovens.

Anachronistic animatronics are actually appalling?

essentialsaltes · Mar 2, 2023

Desk trauma said:
The real story is the the TSA was able to identify a bomb.

Say what you will about 'security theater' in general, but Congress demanded 100% screening of all checked luggage, even at regional airports like LeHigh Valley (served by 4 airlines and 9 gates, but a lot of cargo planes). Many of the scanners have some advanced detection capabilities for explosives.

Desk trauma · Mar 2, 2023

essentialsaltes said:
Say what you will about 'security theater' in general, but Congress demanded 100% screening of all checked luggage, even at regional airports like LeHigh Valley (served by 4 airlines and 9 gates, but a lot of cargo planes). Many of the scanners have some advanced detection capabilities for explosives.

And even with all the tech audits show TSA detection rates are abysmal.

Pommer · Mar 2, 2023

durangodawood said:
Anachronistic animatronics are actually appalling?

A-

durangodawood · Mar 2, 2023

Pommer said:
A-

Appreciated.

iluvatar5150 · Mar 2, 2023

durangodawood said:
Anachronistic animatronics are actually appalling?

Angering, given the astronomical amount they ask for admission.

essentialsaltes · Mar 2, 2023

Desk trauma said:
And even with all the tech audits show TSA detection rates are abysmal.

To be fair, the law prevents them from detecting a joke.

Desk trauma · Mar 2, 2023

essentialsaltes said:
To be fair, the law prevents them from detecting a joke.

Their incompetence prevents them from detecting eight out of ten things that they are allegedly trained to find.

Like I said, the real thing of note in this story is the TSA actually correctly identified a bomb.

Pennsylvania Man arrested after explosive found in luggage at US airport

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