Edinburgh airport security alert

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Intriguing, this.

Airport was evacuated this afternoon after security alert over a potentially 'suspicious' device in a passenger's luggage.

Hellish for everyone who got delayed or diverted, sure. But now that it's been declared safe and reopened, I guess you just go..well, at least the procedures seem to be working and no chances taken, that feels good.

I'm hellish curious, though, what it actually WAS in the luggage....

[bormes]

Test run?

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Maybe, but one helluva an expensive one if so!

Polis Scotland now say there is not and never was a risk to public safety and the passenger concerned has a plausible reason for carrying 'whatever it was'.....

so WHAT THE... was it?

[bormes]

I didnae mean the authorities were doing the test run!!!!

[notanimby]

According to the news the guy detained was innocent..............weird

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Jan 7, 2014 19:37:12 GMT -1 bormes said:

I didnae mean the authorities were doing the test run!!!!

OOOOH! HAHAHA!

Mebbes aye, mebbes naw. I guess we'll find out soon enough!

[bormes]

Naw, seriously, bad yins use innocents when in some cases they genuinely do not know in other cases friends of a friend or just for money or ideology, it is not always what it seems.
Do you remember the explosion out near Gartocharn. Many people were laughing it off and lots of comments about it deriding any chance of terrorist activity.
Well that has been investigated and has now been passed to others, no longer only the Police looking into it, part of a bigger puzzle I suspect?

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I suspect the chances of it being something nefarious are probably pretty slim, Bormes, but you never know.
It's all pretty odd, this one, but hey. Good to know that precautions are working.