NO JOKING: Philly Airport TSA Worker Fired For Planting White Powder On College Student

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ASSOCIATED PRESS: A college student returning to school after the winter break fell victim to a prank at Philadelphia’s airport by a Transportation Security Administration worker who pretended to plant a plastic bag of white powder in her carryon luggage. The worker is no longer employed by the TSA after the incident this month, a spokeswoman said. Rebecca Solomon, 22, a University of Michigan student, wrote in a column for her campus newspaper that she was having her bags screened on Jan. 5 before her flight to Detroit when the employee stopped her, reached into her laptop computer bag and pulled out the plastic bag, demanding to know where she had gotten the powder. In the Jan. 10 column for The Michigan Daily, she recounted how she struggled to come up with an explanation, wondering if it was bomb-detonating material slipped in by a terrorist or drugs put there by a smuggler. ”He let me stutter through an explanation for the longest minute of my life,” Solomon wrote. ”Tears streamed down my face as I pleaded with him to understand that I’d never seen this baggie before.” A short time later, she said, the worker smiled and said it was his. MORE

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