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It was a loaded diaper, but not like you would think.

Security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper Wednesday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said.

Officers pulled the otherwise clean diaper from a passenger’s carry-on bag after it triggered an alarm in an X-ray machine at an airport security checkpoint, the TSA said.

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[–] Omnificer@lemmy.world 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's actually news worthy is that TSA managed to catch this. Their success rate is abysmal, so I'm sure this is a big confidence boost for them.

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In their defense, they stare at a screen all day looking for contraband. The human brain can only do a task like that well for maybe 15 minutes before zoning out.

I know people who worked in manufacturing. There was a quality control position where a worker had to look at glass going by them on a assembly line looking for defects. They studied how long a person could reliability do that before they started missing defects. It was only about 10 minutes.

I think if that story every time I go to the airport, or when the TSA get trashed for missing half of the weapons they're supposed to be searching for.

AI should be used to assist roles like that.

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

They're constantly being switched out at my airport (ATL). Either they are on a similarly short schedule, or I'm lucky enough to always hit shift change :/

[–] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very much this. Four times I’ve accidentally flown with live ammo in my carry on and gotten through the TSA checkpoint unflagged. I can also verify that the hand swab thing they do doesn’t pick up gunpowder.

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

So then it’s not just a funny username