Why are all the "packages" found in airports labled "suspicious"?

[JAYJDF]

Are there wires hanging from all of them?
Do they all tick?

It's good to be aware, it's sad to claim everything suspicious.

[MNDemNY]

1. Strong odor of cheese.

[ForrestGump]

2. My package doesn't smell of cheese

To quote Sir Paul, "it's a clean machine."


Very strange.

[tech3149]

3. My package doesn't smell of cheese either, but I do enjoy the smell

Even more so the taste. Seriously, why the hell not just investigate "suspicious" packages with a low profile and not make it a media circus? Oh, I forgot, they have to scare the prols into submission.

[MNDemNY]

4. If it did, probably a yeast infection.

[slowry]

5. What was that story a few weeks back?

Suspicious package in an airport bathroom, or some such thing. It was a purse. A purse.

BTW watch northern Iraq.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. paranoia and hysteria.

I hope a hundred years from now people are going to look back and laugh at this shit.

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. They've got 'Suspicious Package' stamped all over them??

:shrug:

Doesn't seem too far fetched in an era where a hijackers passport or identification floats down nearly into a cop's hands, and they leave a car at an airport with all their names and details of their plans in it...

Welcome to BizarroWorld - It's beyond the Land of Make Believe - It's the Land of 'I Don't Know What The Fu*k To Believe Anymore'...

[JVS]

8. because people at airports are bad people and trust nobody

[Neecy]

9. anything unattended in an airport is considered suspicious

And after years of working at airline ticket counters, I'm glad that they are. The counters are very vulnerable to attack because they're generally far in front of security checkpoints and are usually filled with passengers. Most airports patrol the non-secure areas of an airport with bomb-sniffing dogs, but that probably wouldn't stop something with a short detonation time.

[MNDemNY]

10. So REAL security is suspicious?

It has gone unattended for years.

[Neecy]

11. you're right about that