Airplane shoebomb suspect stuffed batteries into shoes to appear taller

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how embarrassing:

A traveller who stuffed his shoes with batteries and metal plates in a bid to appear taller put security officials on high alert at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Tuesday.

Shortly before 10 a.m. ET, a man travelling to Chicago was stopped by security.

It was the unusual contents of his shoes that set off alarm bells â?? specifically a series of concealed metal plates and batteries.

The man was detained, taken to a nearby police station and questioned for five hours. The incident drew the interest of Peel Regional Police, the RCMP and INSET, Canada's integrated national security enforcement team.

But instead of concealing bomb-making equipment, the man was simply trying to appear taller, police eventually determined.
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/04/20/pearson-arrest.html#ixzz0lkUaiIhd

you might say he faced a battery of charges. poor guy, a little shortsighted as he could have spent the night in a cell

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He was probably always one to steel the spotlight.
 
Wow, this must be the very height of embarrassment. But surely for someone quite so stupid, this is just a footnote in his list of misadventures.
 
Maybe he just wanted to feel a little electricity in the air.
 
This is quite the tall tale. I can't believe something like this even happened.
 
these ****ing puns you guys bring every time aren't funny.
 
apparently this topic has energized unzero into revealing how short-tempered he really is. shocking if I do say so myself but one would never dare charge him with the crime of acting out of character. but I must thank him as his little outburst has recharged my pun meter to full charge. I can keep going and going and going and going ..if you'd like
 
This guy should really try to make some money out of this story, now that he's on the height of his fame.
 
This story was on the tip of my tongue, and it's just shocking!

Only works with 9 volt battery
 
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