I can see both sides of the airport security discussion. Maybe newspaper reporters shouldn't be the ones who have to expose the deficiencies in our airport security systems, but if they don't who will? Something has to be done to stop knives and so on getting through security and if it takes the actions of a newspaper reporter to highlight the problem, so be it. It's happened before and it'll happen again. If the DETR or an airport authority employee managed to get a fake gun through security, would this appear in the press? Probably not. I know, they asked me to try to get such an item through security once, I managed it no problem. The authorities KNOW that their airport security is deficient, I think that they just don't what to do about it which is extremely worrying in this day and age. I've worked at my airport for three years and I always set the security machine off when I walk through it because I wear steel-capped boots, but in all that time I think I've been checked for other metallic objects less than ten times.
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