False Alarm Bombs
Sometimes a package can set off a detector if it contains almonds as they emit a similar odour to semtex.
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Famous quotes containing the words false, alarm and/or bombs:
“Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think
My charges false and all too rashly made.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)