I missed this the first time around, but apparently in late March a local administrator with the Transporation Safety Agency had a plane searched for a bomb based on a tip from a psychic. The search resulted in the cancelling of the flight because it put some flight workers over their allotted work hours.
The idiot who ordered this was TSA administrator Doug Perkins who told the Associated Press,
The purported psychic’s call was “unusual,” conceded Doug Perkins, local administrator for the federal Transportation Security Administration director.
“But in these times, we can’t ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures,” he said.
So are they going to shut down all air traffic in Texas if some 13-year-old spells “airplane” and “bomb” on her ouija board?
Source:
Psychic tip prompts bomb search on plane. Associated Press, March 27, 2004.