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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Bench. |
0:06.0 | I live in New York and outside of Times Square, John F. Kennedy International Airport is the most chaotic place in the city. |
0:17.0 | Every time I go there, it's a zoo. |
0:21.0 | Tens of millions of passengers go through that airport every year. |
0:26.0 | And every person, bag, and dog carrier on any flight has to go through some kind of screening. |
0:33.0 | And for the most part, it is pretty routine. |
0:37.0 | But every now and then, there's that one person, |
0:41.0 | that one bag that breaks up the monotony, and makes headlines. |
0:47.0 | About 28 pounds of cocaine were seized at JFK |
0:52.0 | after being found in the way. |
0:54.0 | Like the woman who tried to smuggle cocaine in the wheels of her wheelchair, |
0:59.4 | or the guy who was caught with 35 songbirds hidden inside hair curlers or this one. |
1:07.0 | Let's take a look at this, a sticky situation at Kennedy Airport. |
1:10.0 | A guy had packed two jars of peanut butter in his suitcase and they were filled with parts from a disassembled semi-automatic handgun. |
1:19.0 | But last summer, I heard this story that I think beats them all, because what these folks brought |
1:26.2 | into JFK three decades ago is still making headlines today, like actually today. |
1:34.4 | And that story starts here. |
1:37.8 | On British Airways Flight 173 on July 1st, 1992. |
1:47.0 | There's these two people traveling together. There's a woman, Leona. |
1:50.0 | She's in her late 20s. |
1:52.0 | She's a punk, a little scruffy. |
1:54.3 | And then there's this much older man, Larry. |
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