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[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]
I feel sorry for the accused.
The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.
American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis — operated by Republic Airways — made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours.
It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said.
Why in the world was the passenger in custody for “several hours”? They didn’t do anything wrong.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday October 15 2021, @04:50PM
I hate to break it to you, but a soldering iron of any type isn't a common hand tool anymore, if it ever was. Not if "common" means "something most people have at least seen in actual use". And you can say the same of most everything more specialized than a hammer, screwdriver, or saw.
Modern civilization was built on specialization, where everyone learns more and more about less and less (until at the highest levels they know everything about nothing. Ba-dum-tsh.). In recent decades it's gotten even more dramatic, with a near-total move to non-user-serviceable products - "TV" repair shops went out of business precisely because modern electronics have become so small, complicated, and cheap, that it's very rarely worth fixing something rather than replacing it. While computer analysis and cost-optimization has brought most other products to the point that once one part fails, the rest probably isn't far behind.
The final result being - if it's not a hand-tool associated with a traditional craft, many/most people are barely aware that it exists, much less what it looks like.