The Sun, Britain's popular tabloid, took credit for uncovering a massive Olympics scandal
this weekend when it ran a story about a man bringing a Tupperware
container filled with batteries, wires and a timer into Olympic Park in
London. This exposed a "terrifying flaw" in the city's $1.6 billion
security program, according to the newspaper.
A worker at the Olympic Park site noticed he wasn't being searched
when he re-entered the site's checkpoints in the middle of the day. He
decided to create a fake bomb to see whether he could get it past
security and took pictures and video of himself bringing it past a
number of Olympic venues, including Olympic Stadium. When he was
finished with the experiment, he contacted The Sun, "worried about
gaping security loopholes."
How noble of both the man and the newspaper. I know if I was a
concerned citizen of London, the first outlet I'd go to with this news
is The Sun. A trashy tabloid is always the first line of defense when it
comes to national security matters.
This stuff isn't a laughing matter. Terrorism is a very real threat
and one that demands the money, personnel and attention it garners. But a
like a worker bringing some batteries past a checkpoint isn't a
"terrifying flaw." At best, it's a cheap stunt designed to sell
newspaper. If there's anything to be gleaned from this, it's the
sobering reality that everything is vulnerable.
By Chris Chase | Fourth-Place Medal
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