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Aug 10, 2012 12:40 PM   Passing out in weird places is part of any good drunk's job, but a Norwegian tourist has taken the artform to a whole new level by falling asleep on an airport baggage belt, and taking a trip back to the scanners. The unnamed 36-year-old tourist was about to check in for a flight, but found no attendant at the desk. His elegant solution to the problem was, of course, to hop behind the desk, and pass out on the baggage belt. Fifteen minutes later, the tourist was traveling deep into the bowels of the "secure" baggage area, where his huddled, drunken form was spotted on one of the X-Ray baggage scanners. Airport security's reaction? "There's usually an episode like this once a year and we are alert," an official told the Telegraph. "In this case we were notified we sounded the alarm immediately and we took action." If this isn't the first instance of this, you'd think might have developed a more proactive soluti...

Jul 30, 2012 11:00 AM   During a ground test on a runway in South Carolina over the weekend, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner expelled a piece of debris that landed on grass and caught fire. It's just the latest setback for the $200 million passenger megaplane of the future. Scary. The Chicago Tribune reports that the National Transportation Safety Board is in the "early stages" of investigating Saturday incident, which temporarily shut down the airport in North Charleston, South Carolina. Boeing wasted no time and is downplaying the ordeal as an innocuous sounding "engine issue." Fiery debris that shuts down airports? Yeah, no shit there's an issue. It's not even the first problem for the $200 million Dreamliner, which finally made its first commercial flight last year after being delayed for ages. The company recently discovered a fuselage problem that lead to delayed shipments, and five 787s were ground in Japan due to corrosion. Come on, guys, it's cal...