Heh. Just to be clear, it was the smell of burning matches that forced the landing, because the woman wanted to "conceal a 'body odor.'" But with all the extra screening, how did the matches get through? Luckily she wasn't trying to light a shoe bomb, just another kind of...
this reminds me of one of the funniest Dave Barry pieces I ever read, about the earth-killing dangers of cattle flatulence.
ReplyDeletea professor once brought a cow into his classroom, and lit the back end of a cow, which stayed lit like a bunson burner, to demonstrate the global-warming Holstein's danger.
he then segues to the terrorist potential on airplanes. "Look out! he's got a cow!"