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Worst practical joke… drugs planted by TSA officer at security checkNominee

January 28th, 2010 by Doug Lansky

A TSA officer decided to play a little prank on a college student at a baggage screening check point at Philadelphia’s airport.  The TSA worker pretended to plant a plastic bag of white powder in her carry-on luggage.
The victim, a 22-year-old University of Michigan student, wrote in a column for her campus newspaper about the incident. The TSA officer reached into her laptop computer bag and produced the plastic bag with white powder and demanded to know how it came into her possession.

She struggled for an explanation in tears, unsure if it was drugs or explosives, before he told her he was just kidding.

True what they say about the last laugh. The officer has since been fired (or quit).

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  1. February 26th, 2010 at 03:22 | #1

    Doug,
    Please re-read what you wrote:

    “The TSA worker pretended to plant a plastic bag of white powder in her carry-on luggage.”

    How on Earth could he “pretend” to plant the plastic bag? He just PLANTED it. He did not “pretend” to do it.

  2. March 1st, 2010 at 08:30 | #2

    @Claudio
    Good point. Yes, he planted it. It was just pretend cocaine. My bad.

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