The stupidest story you will read all day:

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Hiding explosives in the bags of Irish passengers.

Major quotes:

Slovak officials on Wednesday blamed ''a silly and unprofessional mistake'' for a failed airport security test that led to a man unwittingly carrying hidden explosives in his bag aboard a flight to Dublin.

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Security experts said the episode illustrated the inadequacy of security screening of checked-in luggage -- the very point the Slovak authorities had sought to test when they placed real bomb components in nine passengers' bags Saturday.

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...one bag had two bomb components in it. The sniffer dog found one but the police officer in charge failed to remove the second, which was not detected by the dog, because he was busy, the ministry said.

That allowed 90 grams (3 ounces) of RDX plastic explosive to travel undetected through security at Poprad-Tatry Airport in central Slovakia onto a Danube Wings aircraft. The Slovak carrier launched services to Dublin last month.

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Authorities in Slovakia were considering ''new forms of sniffer dog training'' to avoid a repeat of the scare, the ministry said.

Or, you know - just throwing out ideas here - you could not put explosives into passenger bags.

That said, I do find myself in some agreement with the Slovaks here on one point - if this exercise proved nothing else, it showed that the costly security measures in place are not fail safe (and honestly, I'm not sure they can be made 100% fail safe.) And if we can't keep explosives out of passenger luggage, exactly what are the increased security measures for on board passengers going to accomplish other than increasing the number of crying toddlers and passengers irritated by said crying toddlers?

Yeah, that's what I thought.