Recently, Jay Honeck posted:

So we took my 26 year old, blonde, blue-eyed, 6' 4" nephew back to
the Cedar Rapids airport last night, to catch his red-eye flight back
to Seattle. He was as sick as a dog (flu?) and weak as a kitten, but
go he must, so off he went...

The "Eastern Iowa Airport" is a pretty sleepy place on a Sunday night
-- even the airport bar was closed (gasp!) -- and there were MAYBE 50
people in the entire airport terminal, including employees. Since we
were no longer allowed to go to the gate with him, we said our
goodbyes at the entrance to the security checkpoint.

This area was staffed by TEN (10!) uniformed TSA guys, waiting to
pounce on the terrorists who were (no doubt) thronging into the
heartland. My nephew strolled through the X-ray machine, passed
uneventfully, and then put his single carry-on bag (a back-pack) on
the conveyor...

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Well, one possible upside is that all 10 TSA guys now have the flu. Of
course, that leaves the Eastern Iowa Airport particularly vulnerable! And,
while it does seem like a long-shot, your nephew *could* have asked one of
the attendants for scissors to open his package, then use the tool to hack
through the cabin door and disable the pilots. Oh, wait, if he had the
scissors, he wouldn't need the tool...

Neil