Okay, does anyone have a plausible explanation for this?
LOS ANGELES (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.
Medbloggers, anyone? Can you think of a legitimate or quack medical explanation for this? I’ve heard of probing attacks but this seems, well, a little odd.
Update
Well, there is such a thing as an endorectal coil used as part of an MRI of the prostate. Why would anyone try to get on a plane with such a thing?
The man was using a sex toy imo
To distract airport security from someone else with genuine contraband or ill intent.
Mark:
Or just to cause chaos and disruption without any real risk, just like the recent case of a group of imams acting in a deliberately suspicious manner.
It’s nice when the war on terror provides some comic relief.
I’d vote for a probe. (Ahem.) Maybe the magnet would be united with other butt-smuggled parts aboard the aircraft
Are we entering the era of the ass-bomb?
Can you imagine just how unpleasant airport security might get?