Google is failing me. Where in Portland is this located? I don't watch the local news and usually don't read the Oregonian, I just listen to KOPB.

This reminds me of the last time I took a plane. I was at Newark airport, the day after the "liquid b0mbz" scare this past summer. They lost my luggage, which I passed off as understandable given the stress of the situation. Less understandable was the fact that the TSA employees were scanning _each other_ with the handheld metal detectors and having each other walk through the checkpoint. While this in and of itself isn't necessarily bad (they could have been testing the equipment) they were also laughing and joking around, and holding up a long line of people waiting to get through the security checkpoint. The impression that I got was that they were _playing_ with the equipment. Needless to say, I was pissed. Of course, if I said anything then and there, judging by this article, I probably would have been detained.

This is the kind of incompetance that passes for security nowadays. In some ways though, that incident was useful. Nowadays I take "security threats" and "failed plots" about as seriously as those TSA employees did.