A small matter of Airport Security
Hat tip to the
Stupid Security blog. seinman points to
this article in FOX News:
bq. We've all had trouble returning rental cars at airports, so an elderly woman's mistake in Boise, Idaho, this week might be easy to understand.
bq. The unidentified woman got to Boise Airport (search) at around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, so early that no one was at the car-return counter to help her.
bq. She drove around a bit more, looking for another rental-car return, when she apparently spotted a helpful sign — another car, this time right inside the passenger terminal.
bq. So she drove her rented minivan up a sidewalk handicapped ramp, through a pair of sliding-glass doors, past the baggage-claim area and ended up at the most logical place — back at the walk-up rental-car counter.
And the Airports reaction to this:
bq. Police and Transportation Safety Administration personnel questioned the woman, but decided not to cite her.
bq. "The lucky thing is she didn't hit anything," airport spokeswoman Larissa Stouffer told The Idaho Statesman.
bq. Anderson (Boise Airport Director John Anderson) admitted the airport still had some security issues to work out.
bq. "It's a combination of something that we have corrected short term, and then we will correct long term, and we want to make sure nothing like this happens, and then again you have to look at the lighter side too,"
The woman made her flight.
Posted by DaveH at October 12, 2004 8:02 PM