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Airline Security Down Under done in

A couple of Aussie wags managed to get plane tickets under suspicious-sounding names, which didn't even cause a blink at the last boarding call:



"Mr. Terrorist" will be right along, mate - he's probably just grabbing a Vegamite sandwich . . .

Thanks to My Pet Jawa for the link.

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Now if these fellas would h... (Below threshold)
metprof:

Now if these fellas would have been 70 year old ladies, all hell would have broke loose.

That was actually hilarious... (Below threshold)

That was actually hilarious. I can't believe they got away with it though. They shouldn't try that at the Portland International Airport. The TSA there gave my son (who was seven) a hard time because I was carrying his boarding pass and he wasn't. I had taken it away after he dropped it twice on the way to the gate. I won;t go into massive details, but the TSA agent got more than ear full from me.

I didn't think it was that ... (Below threshold)

I didn't think it was that clever of a stunt. I'm sure the airline attendant merely thought that these people had unfortunate names which had been given bad connotations by recent world events.

Sorta like having your birthday on 9/11.


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