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Mon, May 17, 2004

Radio Personality's Gag Exposes Flaw In Aussie Airport Security

Rex Hunt To Airport Security: Fork You!

Airports around the world have focused their security attentions on keeping potential weapons and the people who would wield them out of passenger terminals.

But what if those potential weapons were available to the people who would wield them AFTER they cleared security?

That's the question they're asking today in Australia, where sports commentator Rex Hunt decided to show them all.

Hunt was boarding a Qantas flight from Adelaide to Melbourne Saturday when he set off the metal detector alarms. He had to remove his steel-toed shoes and his belt. Unfortunately for the soccer sportscaster, without his belt buckled, his pants fell down.

That made him a little angry. So he stormed into the Qantas lounge inside the concourse and took ten forks. Metal forks -- the kind you usually see on your own dinner table. He then took the forks on board his flight and showed them to passengers.

One of the passengers was a bit alarmed, and alerted a flight attendant. Hunt, already fuming at losing his pants during the initial security check, was hauled off for an "interview" by anti-terror officials upon landing at Melbourne Airport.

Qantas says there was no breach of security (but didn't say if the lounge in Adelaide wanted its forks back). The airline said metal forks are approved for flight. No charges were filed against Hunt (right).

But not everyone agrees such should be the case. Allen Behrm, a former government security chief, said Hunt has set a dangerous example.

"If I was a magistrate hearing the charge I would bang him (Hunt) away for doing that" Behrm said, because Hunt had "set an example of mischief that provokes other madmen to do the same."

FMI: www.qantas.com.au

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