A US Airways flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a young Jewish man's prayer items triggered a bomb scare, Philadelphia police said.Further evidence, as if more were needed, that generally all that the security theatre we've had imposed on us is good for is false alarms, and sometimes pretty fucking embarrassing false alarms. So we'll add orthodox Judaism to 8 year olds being on a terror watch list, shall we? I'm sure someone somewhere is fucking laughing about it.
The incident arose when the man used a phylactery, a small black box Orthodox Jews strap to their head as part of their rituals, police said.
The man was not arrested and the plane landed without incident.
Fucking twats.