Monday, August 19, 2013

Why we still need Austin Powers


OK, now, number one, this is actually serious.  Terrorists have apparently thought about trying to put weapons and explosives inside human bodies.  LIVING human bodies.  So the following article about serious concerns is entirely on the up-and-up.

Breast implant explosives could be used in terrorist attack
According to Philip Baum, editor of Security International, body scanners are good at identify objects outside the body but not inside and the “possibility of medically implanted explosives is a concern to the industry.”

Explosives expert Andy Oppenheimer said: “There is a great fear that al-Qaeda are planning on using internal devices to try and get through airport scanners.

"These explosives could be in breast implants."
So the experts do need to take this seriously.

Unfortunately, it also has some comical aspects.  Thus, it's too bad that we can't get Austin Powers to deal with breast implant bombers, because he's already dealt with dangerous weapons like this:



 Hopefully this is all the experts will ever have to deal with, too.


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