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Flights cancelled in Japan after scissors go missing (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18888722

Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.

Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were suspended for about two hours on Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of travellers temporarily stranded.

There were huge bottlenecks and queues as passengers in the departure lounge were forced to retake security checks.

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

🤣

Imagine being the store clerk having to tell them that.

[–] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine being the store clerc who misplaced them

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

*cleric

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

あの…　すみません

はさみはここです…

ご…　ごめんなさい…

[–] ScrambledLogic@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

まったく…

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Smells like some policies are getting changed

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, now all scissors will have a serial number engraved on them and need to be signed out and in in a secured central environment.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Prison rules. Tether them to the work station.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

You could also make the scissors so big nobody will be able to smuggle them.

like this

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly this would be a more effective method than the one they went with.

[–] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'd've definitely hid those scissors.

[–] ouRKaoS 4 points 1 month ago

Commiting Seppuku with scissors would suck.

[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their concern is that the scissors could be used as a weapon to hijack planes. I'm not entirely sure how founded that concern is but people in Japan seem relatively fine with the whole situation so whatever.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I'm not entirely sure how founded that concern is

Like many post 9/11 rules, probably not very..

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

If the power of thoughts were real the people that stole or misplaced the scisors.would be dead