Fox News Good for a Laugh

As you can see from the picture above and from reading this article, airport metal detectors are useless, I mean just absolutely useless, at detecting explosives. They're really, really good at detecting metal like guns and knives but explosives? Fuggedaboutit.

Is it really news when a tool fails to perform a job that it isn't meant for? Is it any wonder people laugh when Fox News is cited as the source for anything?

The article isn't even written badly. It's basic premise is that a different type of security screening device would have detected the explosive the nutjob used to try and blow up Flight 253 on Christmas Day. The real problem is that the article is preceded by a headline Fox News is using to drum up some sort of controversy, thereby making the article more titillating. I can't wait to see more of these kinds of headlines:

"Calculators can't provide definitions for vocabulary words!"

"Toilet plunger can't loosen bolts on sink faucet!"

"Smoke detectors can't pick up Aunt Trudy's garlic breath!"