The part i find amusing about all of this is that the original announcement by Turnbull, flanked by the police implied that it was the brilliant detective work of our law enforcement agencies that thwarted a sinister plot.
Over time it emerged that the real story is that the UK law enforcement told our guys what was going on and our local plod went and arrested the 3 blokes concerned. So the spin changed to how brilliantly we cooperate with other law enforcement agencies (by taking their call?) And the device didn't make it on the plane because it was overweight for hand luggage.
Is that an over-simplification? The hundreds of millions in bureaucracy and general dicking around of staff and passengers every day, all of this mutual backslapping about how we are world leaders in investigation, but in the end it came down down to someone else telling us it was happening and cabin allowance baggage rules?
Last edited by extralite; 4th Aug 2017 at 03:38.