At this point in my airport adventures, I can only laugh when I see a story like this. Apparently a screener at the Long Beach Airport in California saw something suspicious in a piece of checked baggage around 9:30 am this morning and immediately called for an evacuation of the terminal, stranding five arriving planes on the tarmac as the authorities were brought in. The police, firefighters, and the bomb squad all rushed to the scene, only to determine after 90 minutes that the device in the bag belonging to someone working for, "some sort of game or toy company," turned out to be a handheld video game of unknown make and model in raw form, complete with exposed wiring.

While I can certainly see the need for such precautions, I like to think of this as gaming's way of getting revenge for my past month of delayed, missed, rescheduled, rerouted, and just plain over expensive airplane flights. Video games got my back, yo.

Game in bag prompts airport evacuation [Houston Chronicle - Thanks Randy!]

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