Suspicious 'game board' causes airport evacuation

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[Only registered users can see links. ]A suspicious item found yesterday at Long Beach Airport, Calif. caused the terminal to be [Only registered users can see links. ] for about 90 minutes and left five aircraft stranded on the tarmac. The item, found in a checked bag, ended up being a "handheld game board." Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin says, "It certainly was nothing but it certainly looked like something. It had all the wires and components that you would see in an explosive device." The bomb squad was called to the airport -- but no word if they disposed of the nefarious device. Also, the adult passenger is "being interviewed."

We wonder if those TSA agents played the [Only registered users can see links. ] to train for their jobs. So, best suggestion on how to avoid a similar incident would probably be not to put your gaming devices together in your bag. A bundled up package of DS, games with cord could look like a bomb to the untrained eye TSA. Better safe than sorry, please wrap each component separately and keep your DS and/or PSP on your body at all times.

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Hahaha well not funny for the people who were stranded not only that the security resources that were used?

Okay you know what....that's not funny at all.