File under "WTF"

I love listening to NPR - you guys know this.  But the other day I heard a story that truly made me say "WTF" and talk to the radio.  In the car. By myself.  The Alau Family insanity persists.  That aside, here's the deal:

Apparently, the Slovakians decided they were going to test their explosive detection systems by placing small amounts of C4 in the bags of passengers without the passenger's knowledge.  The theory here was the bomb sniffing dogs would FIND the C4, the explosive would be removed, and no one would be the wiser. Ahhhhh - the best laid plans of Slovakian mice and men.

2 packets of C4 were placed in the bag of a passenger, again, without his knowledge, and the dogs started doing their job.  The dog found one of the packets, but not the second.  Before the human associated with the dog could remove the second package of C4 from the bag, he and his dog were called of to something else, and the C4 was left in this poor schmoe's bag!! 


Sometime later, the security guard does a forehead slap, and calls the pilot of the plane associated with this bag, letting him know that there is C4 on his plane.  The pilot says "well, it's not hooked up to anything that will make it explode and is therefore harmless, so we'll just go ahead to our destination."  Where was that destination, you might ask?  IRELAND!  GREAT frickin place to bring C4 to.


Okay, plane takes of, and Slovakian security sends a TELEX to the Dublin airport's baggage division.  Insert double take and "WTF" here.  A telex?  Really???  And somehow, the Telex wasn't received in Ireland.  So like 3 days later, when Slovakia informs Ireland what happened, the Irish, who never over react, find the poor schmoe with the C4, surround his apartment with the police and SWAT team, ARREST HIM, and then detain him for several hours until the Slovakian government straightens the whole convoluted mess out.


DAMN.


I am actually out of "WTF"s in my vocabulary for this situation.

Safety first?