Xbox 360 sparks bomb scare

by Blake Snow on Jan 2nd 2006 11:45AM

According to the New York Post, a man carrying an Xbox 360 in a metal case caused a bomb scare at MacArthur Airport on Long Island, forcing a terminal to be evacuated. From the article: "Officials say the Chicago-bound flier, worried that his game console might be swiped if he checked it, instead put it in a metal case that he carried through security checkpoints. At 12:15 p.m., the container passed through an X-ray machine, and screeners thought it might have held a bomb."

Being that the Xbox 360 is the size of a small bomb, don't place the console into a suspicious metal case if you're ever traveling through the airport.

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Reader Comments (5)

If it was me, that thing would be in a Pelican hard case with fitted foam inserts and a pressure valve for high altitudes along with some innocuous label on the outside like "Used Condoms" or "187 Ride or Die Demo CDs."

Then again... I'm not that rich, so it would probably stay in its box completely sealed and obscured by yards and yards of tape.

But then they might think it was a human head.

And that shit's embarassing.

how come i see very few pictures on engfadget and joystiq?

This incident had nothing to do with the man, his decision to protect his console, or the 360 itself. it had to do with the airport worker's paranoid imagination, which caused havoc on the entire airport for jumping to some ridiculous conclusion. The blogger himself is jumping to paranoid conclusions by associating the 360 to a bomb and getting people scared to travel with their console. Bombs can come in all shapes and sizes!! and airport workers should be better trained to handle "crisis situations" so as to not release a panic.

We (as in the general public) should not be changing our lifestyles over some ever-institutionalized fears!