No, the paper printed an unconfirmed story, and now you're asking people to publicly verify or comment further, so not the same thing. I'm merely suggesting that discussion on the effectiveness or otherwise of specific measures at specific airports is not to be encouraged anywhere, whether in a newspaper article or not. And your reply was tantamount to kids justifying their thoughtless behaviour by crying "but the bigger boy did it first". It still doesn't mean it's a good idea.