Hello my dear friends. Travelling is so much fun these days. Happy, friendly people bustling through safe, clean and cheerful airports. Just the thought of it leaves me all atingle! So, imagine my surprise when I heard about the little glitch at Newark International Airport this weekend. Newark, as you may recall, is the same airport that had to fire 7 TSA agents last year for sleeping on the job. Thank goodness they weeded out those bad seeds! On Sunday, Newark's crack TSA team discovered a bag and a passenger that tested positive for "explosives residue"! Wow! Nice catch, right? WRONG. It seems those same crack TSA agents who discovered the passenger and the bag promptly lost track of both and had to shut down the entire airport! It gets better. By the time they realized what they had done, passenger zero had already boarded her plane and was on her way to Cleveland. She, who was never identified, arrived in Cleveland unchecked, and departed the airport before TSA agents there even knew what was going on!. She hasn't been seen since. There was a two and a half hour search for the bag, which eventually made it's way to the tarmac where it sat for 45 minutes before anyone noticed it. It then took hours to clear the bag before the airport could be reopened. So, a hundred flights were cancelled, dozens delayed, thousands of passengers forced to wait in lines for hours to be re-screened before they were allowed to search for an alternate way out of New Jersey! Sounds like a wonderful Sunday afternoon to me! This is the same airport where my captor was left stranded during a storm. That would seem unavoidable except for the fact that the airport told the airline they could land, even though the airport was closed. Thus leaving the unknowing passengers with no where to go. So my friends, heed my advice. When you book your next trip, even if it costs you more, don't use an airline that stops in Newark. You may never get out.
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