The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that a passenger was caught trying to smuggle a knife that was designed to look like a credit card through airport security.
The TSA said the incident happened Tuesday morning at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. The agency said the knife was discovered by a TSA employee on one of the agency’s controversial X-ray machines, which some critics have said emit enough radiation to possibly cause cancer.
TSA has defended the X-ray machines are being safe, and Wednesday, the agency said it helped them catch a concealed weapon.
“The credit card knife was sandwiched between several real credit cards in the passenger’s wallet, and placed in a carry-on during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year,” the agency said in a statement that was provided to The Hill.
“Thanks to their training, effective technology, and on-the-job focus, the TSA Officers were able to detect this item without any impact to airport operations,” the TSA statement continued.
{The Hill/Matzav.com Newscenter}
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the story makes it sound like he designed a knife to look like a credit card to sneak it onto a plane, when more likely, he keeps it in his wallet all the time and forgot to take it out.
Well, I guess they’ll press “charges” against him.
what does this have to do with the controversial xray machines? no one complains about xraying carryons – only people.