Thinking back on the recent terrist plot and its security changes, I was reminded of the flight out of Sydney back in March. The airport’s power being off wasn’t the only thing unusual about it. As the lengthy queue snaked its way to the nonfunctioning check-in desks, a pair of airport police at a table were hand-searching luggage.
They were particularly interested in the toiletries. When I asked innocently enough what they were looking for, one of them told me they were “just checking that my shaving cream container was sealed.”
I tried but couldn’t imagine how a shaving kit full of errant foam could bring down a plane. Shrugging it off to a side effect of the power outage, I forgot all about it until now. Perhaps its connected to the latest terror plot. Who knows?