Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: 100 Megatons in Your Pocket

If there was a moral to this story on Sci-Fi Hi-Fi, I guess it would have to be, "Don't leave your iPod on the plane".

It wasn’t until I had a chance to actually examine my iPod’s case that I began to understand the BA staff’s curious behaviour. The iPod was still perfectly functional, but the metal back no longer fit snugly onto the white plastic front on the left side, as if someone had attempted to pry the enclosure open with a knife. At first I wondered if some electronically curious airport employee had decided to dissect the thing, but then it hit me: in the wake of terrorist threats that delayed a Washinton-bound BA flight for five days, some flight attendant must have caused an incident by mistaking my iPod for a bomb! I guess I’m probably just lucky that the poor thing didn’t meet its end in a controlled explosion! I think Boromir summed the situation up perfectly inFellowship of the Ring: “It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing.” I guess that’s life in the post 9/11 era…