How many years will the innocent traveler be stuck having problems from this "silly" mistake? It wouldn't surprise me to hear that he somehow has been added to a list and it won't be easy being removed from it either. It's difficult to imagine something so careless happening and even more so to hear the Slovak government dismiss it as a silly mistake. Somehow I doubt the Irish government doesn't find this very amusing either.
It all began Saturday when a policeman in Slovakia slipped 3.4 ounces (96 grams) of plastic explosive into Stefan Gonda's check-in luggage at Bratislava's Poprad-Tatry Airport as he and his wife were returning home to Ireland after a Christmas visit.
Slovak authorities said the bomb material and a dummy that smelled like explosives were hidden in the bag as a training test for a bomb-sniffing dog, who did pinpoint the fake.
But the police officer in charge got distracted and failed to remove the cache containing the real thing, the Slovak Interior Ministry said. That allowed RDX plastic explosive to travel undetected through airport security onto a Danube Wings aircraft.
