Blowing Up Scientific Equipment in the Name of Security
Jeffrey W. Peters writes in The Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Anne Jefferson has a piece of advice for travelers: Be sure to check the trunk of your rental car.Officers with the Bloomington Police Department bomb squad destroyed it.
Jefferson, 27, a Winona native, recently minted Ph.D. and researcher in the geosciences department at Oregon State University, concluded a combined business and holiday trip to Minnesota on Sunday, dropping off a rental car at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport before boarding a plane to Portland, Ore., with her husband.
By the time they arrived there, armed officers were waiting for them, and in the Twin Cities, portions of the Lindbergh terminal parking ramp had been closed for about two hours after authorities found a suspicious looking device in the spare tire compartment of the couple's rental car.
It was actually equipment that Jefferson had been using in her research on water temperatures in stream channels. She intended to mail it back to Oregon, but she just forgot about it.
More here.
posted by Fergie @ 11/28/2006 12:52:00 PM
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