AMERICA'S airport security agency, the Transportation Security Adminstration, claims to have caught a ninja trying to slip through airport security. Well, not exactly, despite the title of the agency's celebratory blog post, "Not Even Ninjas Can Evade Airport Security." Here's what really happened: a passenger who was trying to fly to Chicago brought with him a book called "Ninja: The Shadow Warrior", the inside of which had been hollowed out to hold what appear to be some pretty serious ninja knives:

ninja equipment

I did a little research and it doesn't seem as though this book was designed to contain knives—the passenger presumably hollowed it out himself. Is that really something you forget you did? The TSA does miss things, but a ninja book containing knives would have raised all sorts of red flags. More important, though, is that it's not very ninja-like to hide your ninja knives in your ninja book. Last time I checked, ninjas aren't supposed to draw attention to themselves. Ninjas definitely aren't supposed to "voluntarily surrender" their weapons, as this one did when confronted by airport security. It sounds like someone needs a refresher course.

The TSA's Blogger Bob, who now has a last name, Burns, admits that the agency "didn't catch an actual Ninja," but what they "did catch was a passenger who claimed they forgot this stealthy Ninja book was in their bag. Hmmm...." Hmmm indeed.