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Flights cancelled in Japan after scissors go missing (www.bbc.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18888722

Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.

Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were suspended for about two hours on Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of travellers temporarily stranded.

There were huge bottlenecks and queues as passengers in the departure lounge were forced to retake security checks. 

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

🤣

Imagine being the store clerk having to tell them that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being the store clerc who misplaced them

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

*cleric

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Smells like some policies are getting changed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup, now all scissors will have a serial number engraved on them and need to be signed out and in in a secured central environment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Prison rules. Tether them to the work station.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You could also make the scissors so big nobody will be able to smuggle them.

like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Honestly this would be a more effective method than the one they went with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'd've definitely hid those scissors.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Their concern is that the scissors could be used as a weapon to hijack planes. I'm not entirely sure how founded that concern is but people in Japan seem relatively fine with the whole situation so whatever.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

I'm not entirely sure how founded that concern is

Like many post 9/11 rules, probably not very..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

If the power of thoughts were real the people that stole or misplaced the scisors.would be dead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Japanese efficiency ladies and gentlemen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ha ha racism funny! Me smart. Upvote now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Y’know, fair, I have reconsidered my point, I realized I don’t know how an American airport would respond to missing scissors after the gate, I’m certainly not motivated by some upvotes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Through the warped lense of what modern security theater has sold their leaders on? Sure, why not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I didn’t read the article fully and didn’t realize that the missing scissors were post security, I don’t know how an American airport would respond to this kind of event