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Conference rusure::nintendo

Title:Nintendo Game Systems
Notice:Please enter Super NES notes in Yuppy::Super_NES.
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Tue Oct 20 1987
Last Modified:Mon Feb 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:847
Total number of notes:11602

363.0. "exploding nintendo game!" by QBUS::MULLINS () Thu Nov 30 1989 15:42

    Just wondering if anyone heard about the alleged bomb found
    at the Los Angeles Airport yesterday.
    
    As it turns out after security had the thing blown up it was found
    to be a Nintendo game.
    
    Have we gone nintendo crazy or what!
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363.1Safety first.DIXIE1::WITMANMickey Mouse FOREVERFri Dec 01 1989 11:397
    I heard about this and though it was funny until my wife reminded us
    that the bomb that blew up Pan Am 103 was disguised as a cassette player. 
    Prudence dictates to err on the side of safety.  A nintendo can be
    replaced.
    
    I hope I haven't replied to *heavily* to your inital note but I'm a
    sensitive flyer.
363.2ALIEN::POSTPISCHILI will not be bullied.Sat Dec 02 1989 20:2212
    Re .1:
    
    I think blowing up a _suspected_ package is a pretty silly thing to do.
    About a year ago, some jerk sheriff blew up a suspected box -- it
    turned out to be several kittens.
    
    If they've got a big open space to blow up the package in, then they've
    got a big open space to leave the package in while they ask the owner
    to go open it or while they find a bomb expert.
    
    
    				-- edp
363.3GERBIL::PELKEYLoco Boy Makes Good.Mon Dec 04 1989 18:367
<<    About a year ago, some jerk sheriff blew up a suspected box -- it
<<    turned out to be several kittens.
    
    
    	EEUwwwwwww!!!
363.4a little more info....CANYON::LEEDSScuba dooba dooMon Dec 04 1989 20:0233
I happened to be in LA the day this happened, and there was a big 
article in the LA Times on it the next day.

The meat of the story is that a person watching the luggage XRay (not 
carry-on, but checked) for a flight on the airlines that just had a 
bomb blow it up (can't remember the airline name at this time), saw 
what appeared to be 3 cyllindrical objects, about 1 to 1 1/2 inches in 
diameter, about 6 inches long, packed closely together. The guy said 
it looked just like 3 sticks of dynamite. He apparently got the 
airport security, LAPD, and the FBI to all look at the X-Rays, and 
they all agreed it looked like TNT. The flight had been delayed by a 
day due to equipment problems, so all the passengers had left the 
airport 'til the next flight. The luggage belonged to someone 
traveling to the flight's destination (South America somewhere), with
a South American address on the luggage tags.  They decided it was too
risky to try to open it and they blew it up. 

They later learned that the luggage owners were staying with some 
relatives in LA, and they showed up at the house, questioning and 
"frisking" the owners. They found no reason to suspect the owners of 
anything. The LA Times called Nintendo and a spokesman said there was
nothing either in the game box or any of the games that resembles 3
cyllinders of that size. So..... who knows what the X-Rays showed....
there may have been something else in the suitcase (batteries ?) that
fit the description, but all they could find after blowing it up was
parts of a Nintendo. 


I agree they were a little hasty in blowing it up, but considering 
that I'm on a plane at least twice a week, it's nice to know at least 
they're trying.....

Arlan
363.5Is this covered by the warranty?ODIXIE::WITMANMickey Mouse FOREVERTue Dec 05 1989 11:384
    After reading .4, I stand by my opinion that prudence dictates to err
    on the side of safety .
    
    I wonder if the nintendo was still under warranty?
363.6KaBoom.AIMTEC::WARRENS_RVOTE! Your Community depends on it.Fri Oct 12 1990 19:271
    What Nintendo? ;-)