So please let me get this straight.
A suspicious article is discovered by baggage handlers and the conversation and actions are something like this:
Bloggs A : 'Hey this article looks suspicious and what the hell is it with this sparkler attached?'
Bloggs B : 'Dunno shags but lets pick up this suspicious looking article and carry it into the terminal'
The cruncher is that it took some lame-brained idiot
VB employee over an hour to notify the Federal Police.
If anything the port/airport manager should have been notified and the AFP notified immediately when the article was discovered,let alone physically man handled and moved to where it could be X-rayed in a terminal amongst unsuspecting pax without due assessment.
Its quite obvious that
VB has no contingency plans or training in place which is unforgiveable in this day and age.
Having friends killed by an explosion on a CV880 some years back I have seen the direct effects terrorism can cause.
In this case the handling could be summed up as follows:
Lack of training........................................Blatantly obvious
Reprehensible?.........................................Yes
Idiotic?...................................................Y es
Unprofessional?.................................. .....Definitely.