Showing posts with label Poprad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poprad. Show all posts

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Slovak Security Snafu Shocks World


After spending the Christmas holidays at home, Stefan Gonda arrived at the airport in Poprad in the central European state of Slovakia on Saturday to catch a flight back to Dublin where he's been working for the past four years. The 49-year-old checked his bags in and boarded the plane as he'd done numerous times in the past.  That, however, is where normal ends.  Slovak security had an idea, a bad idea.  They would load explosives into the bags of an unsuspecting traveler to test whether their explosive team dogs could sniff them out.  Unknown to him, Gonda would provide the baggage.  However, everything went terribly wrong, and the sleepy town of Poprad soon found itself at the center of world attention.