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Stupid-Frightening Is The Ying-Yang Of Our Post 9/11 World

Like many things these days, whatever happened was either incredibly stupid or incredibly scary:

[Staten Island resident Debra] Sander . . . made the unsettling discovery after flying JetBlue Airways from Newark to Tampa to spend the Easter holiday with her siblings.

When she arrived with her young son at her brother Willy’s home in Clearwater, she began unpacking — only to find a strange white, button-down shirt lying atop her own clothes.

“I thought it was weird,” said Ms. Sander, who initially believed she had mistakenly packed a shirt of her husband’s.

Then she noticed badges, lettering and insignia identical to that of the [Transportation Security Administration]. Also attached to the shirt was someone’s name tag and ID number.

. . .

According to Ms. Sander, her suitcase has a TSA-approved combination lock for which only the agency is supposed to have a universal key.

“Either somebody with the TSA is lying or someone who isn’t a member of homeland security has a universal key to the lock,” said Ms. Sander.

She said that a few people to whom she told the story tossed around conspiracy theories that perhaps the shirt was misplaced by a terrorist who had intended to deliver the item to a colleague.

“After 9/11, anything is possible,” she said. “But the best possible scenario is that it was done by an irresponsible worker. Then maybe they shouldn’t be working there.”

Posted: April 18th, 2006 | Filed under: Makes Jack Bauer Scream, "Dammit!"
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