The Wireless Enema
Fleet, for example? Fleet or a generic like it should be your anal douche of choice when you're traveling by plane. Avoid following the lead of the idiot Iraqi who tried to get on a plane at LAX with his ass all wired up. Via Reuters:
An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.
A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.
"He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.
Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.
Why would he do that? Just to test the system, perhaps?
Norman at March 7, 2007 3:16 AM
That's what I was guessing.
Amy Alkon at March 7, 2007 5:15 AM
You mean it wasn't because some health "guru" told him that there were health benefits? That he could realign his chakras and purify his colon/liver/whatever by sticking a magnet up his posterior? I'm sure the wires are there only to help property align the magnetic field to his aura.
The employees of this security checkpoint are probably toadies of big pharma!
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Sorry, forgot I'm not reading "respectful insolence".
Jamie at March 7, 2007 6:19 AM
Next stop, Albanian secret prison. Ah, in a perfect world.
Casca at March 7, 2007 7:13 AM
Maybe he was wanted to fulfil his body cavity search fantasy.
Lena at March 7, 2007 7:35 AM
[butt-head]huh-huh Did I just score?[/butt-head]
brian at March 7, 2007 8:26 AM
Okay, is it just me? It seems there are a butt-load of anally oriented postings here lately. (Sorry about the pun...could not resist.)
André-Tascha at March 7, 2007 8:35 AM
How much does it suck to be the cop who has to do this sort of stuff? Do they draw straws? "Damnit, colon-probing duty again!" Or is it someone's beat? However, it works, they have my gratitude and sympathy.
justin case at March 7, 2007 8:43 AM
The Daily Breeze has more on this:
New-age-terrorist-wannabe-moron? Or just plain New-age-moron? You be the decider.
justin case at March 7, 2007 10:11 AM
Must have been a Feng Shui thing. He was trying to change the color of his aura, or whatever.
Pirate Jo at March 7, 2007 12:00 PM
"Okay, is it just me? It seems there are a butt-load of anally oriented postings here lately."
And? This is a problem?
Lena at March 7, 2007 6:37 PM
Did they plug the wires into the wall to see what happened?
MarkD at March 9, 2007 7:39 AM
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