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[Beer Chang]

AN airport worker has been disciplined after pretending to plant a bag of white powder in a passenger's bag as a "prank".

Rebecca Solomon, 22, a student at the University of Michigan, was having her bags screened at Philadelphia airport before her flight to Detroit, US, when the incident occurred, the Associated Press reported.

She said a Transport Security Administration officer stopped her, reached into her laptop bag and pulled out the plastic bag.

He then allegedly demanded to know where she had gotten the powder.

Ms Solomon said she struggled to come up with an explanation and feared a terrorist or drug smuggler may have planted the bag in her luggage.

"He let me stutter through an explanation for the longest minute of my life," she wrote in the Michigan Daily.

"Tears streamed down my face as I pleaded with him to understand that I'd never seen this baggie before."

Shortly later the worker smiled, waved the bag at her and then declared that it actually belonged to him.

Ms Solomon made a formal complaint about the incident and was told he had been disciplined.

"I had been terrified and disrespected by an airport employee," she said. "He'd joked about the least funny thing in air travel."

TSA spokeswoman Suzanne Trevino said the employee's action were "highly inappropriate and unprofessional" and said he was no longer with the agency.

http://www.news.com....0-1225823888883

[rucus7]

Maybe you had to be there to see the humor . . . . . . .

[Thaimo]

What an incredibly stupid thing to do. I can't imagine what this man was thinking. He must have prepared his little bag of powder at home before even going to work. Did he believe everyone would have a good laugh? There are some real crazies in this world.

[Bob]

Ditto. Incredibly stupid and not a iota of humor to it (I can just imagine how the girl felt - just horrible). I wish I would have been the guy's superior as I would have humiliated the jerk and publicly fired him on the spot.

[Beer Chang]

I'm sure it scared the beejeezuz out of her. Thinking all of a sudden she's going to jail for something she didn't do, her whole life changing in an instant.

[lvdkeyes]

It is heartening to know the asshole got fired.

[Thaimo]

lvdkeyes, on 01 February 2010 - 08:13 AM, said:

It is heartening to know the asshole got fired.

I agree. If I had my way he would also be heavily fined. This was his idea of a prank? I wonder why he even wanted to pull a prank and how he decided to choose this particular girl. Unbelievable.

[Beer Chang]

I know she's young, and my guess is that she's good looking.