Just when you thought TSA couldn’t get anymore brilliant, they’ve admitted to sanctioning an emergency landing of a Chautauqua Airlines flight headed to Louisville from LaGuardia for somewhat dubious reasons: before the plane could reach it’s destination, a teenager wrapping Tefillin was mistaken for having “wires strapped to his head and fingers”, and was thus deemed a “disruptive passenger” by the flight crew, who then contacted the TSA and were instructed to divert the plane to Philadelphia.
What’s next? Dreidels of mass destruction?