cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18888722

Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.

Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were suspended for about two hours on Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of travellers temporarily stranded.

There were huge bottlenecks and queues as passengers in the departure lounge were forced to retake security checks.

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

  • Carighan Maconar
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    993 months ago

    Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

    🤣

    Imagine being the store clerk having to tell them that.

    • Aisteru
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      263 months ago

      Imagine being the store clerc who misplaced them

    • Cyborganism
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      113 months ago

      あの… すみません

      はさみはここです…

      ご… ごめんなさい…

    • @andrewth09
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      3 months ago

      Smells like some policies are getting changed

      • @thejoker954
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        93 months ago

        Yup, now all scissors will have a serial number engraved on them and need to be signed out and in in a secured central environment.

        • @mkwt
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          63 months ago

          Prison rules. Tether them to the work station.

          • @thejoker954
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            23 months ago

            Honestly this would be a more effective method than the one they went with.

    • @KrankyKong
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      42 months ago

      I’d’ve definitely hid those scissors.

  • @Ibaudia
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    263 months ago

    Their concern is that the scissors could be used as a weapon to hijack planes. I’m not entirely sure how founded that concern is but people in Japan seem relatively fine with the whole situation so whatever.

    • @Viking_HippieOP
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      273 months ago

      I’m not entirely sure how founded that concern is

      Like many post 9/11 rules, probably not very…

  • @MissJinx
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    93 months ago

    If the power of thoughts were real the people that stole or misplaced the scisors.would be dead

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Through the warped lense of what modern security theater has sold their leaders on? Sure, why not?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        I didn’t read the article fully and didn’t realize that the missing scissors were post security, I don’t know how an American airport would respond to this kind of event

    • @MotoAsh
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      13 months ago

      ha ha racism funny! Me smart. Upvote now.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Y’know, fair, I have reconsidered my point, I realized I don’t know how an American airport would respond to missing scissors after the gate, I’m certainly not motivated by some upvotes