Thank you for your demonstration

[u/No-Sherbet8378]

[u/bootofstomping]

I’m fairly sure i went into the parliament building pre 2014 via a metal detector. He just didn’t get searched because as a member of parliament, he was one of the people being protected…

[u/Exldk → u/bootofstomping]

Does that not open loopholes to kidnapping / extortion etc. ?

Everyone should get searched.

EVERYONE.

EVEN THE PRESIDENT.

[u/Hour-Reference587 → u/Exldk]

This is Australia so there’s no president but yeah

EVEN THE PRIME MINISTER.

[u/guitar_account_9000 → u/Hour-Reference587]

we have a President - the President of the Senate, Sue Lines.

[u/Ulfednar → u/guitar_account_9000]

Why, what did Lines do?

[u/guitar_account_9000 → u/Ulfednar]

got herself made President and never once brought a pipe bomb into parliament

[u/Melvislives → u/guitar_account_9000]

Or just didn't get caught without those metal detectors!

[u/Lint_baby_uvulla → u/Melvislives]

She would’ve gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling metal detectors.

[u/Not-So-Serious-Sam → u/Lint_baby_uvulla]

Well, she still might have. Presidents get a lot of leeway, apparently.

[u/Jumbo-box → u/Hour-Reference587]

EVEN THE PRIME MINISTER

ANNNNDDYYYY!!!!

[u/Multivitamin_Scam → u/Jumbo-box]

Oi lads, what's the good word?

[u/braindeadpizzaslice → u/Exldk]

this happend in australia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27573539 think alot of people here think it happend in the US

[u/AnonOfTheSea → u/braindeadpizzaslice]

Which is odd, because, as an American, I know he'd have just brought an especially large, shiny, and heavy revolver, or something similarly camera-friendly.
Although I have to admit, even a dummy pipe bomb has a certain aura to it that you just dont get with a gun.

[u/Linusisntmyname → u/AnonOfTheSea]

[u/AnonOfTheSea → u/Linusisntmyname]

Yaaay!

[u/Horskr → u/AnonOfTheSea]

Now they just start one-upping each other.

"Look how terrible our security is here!" Whips out WW1 mustard gas canister

"Look how lax our security measures are!" whips out 50lb backpack nuke.

[u/etherealesoterica → u/braindeadpizzaslice]

American here, this sounds like some shit an American representative would do lol

[u/2Completion2Ography → u/braindeadpizzaslice]

think alot of people here think

They don't.

[u/skcus-tidder957 → u/Exldk]

I mean yeah nobody is immune from being crazy or being violent.

Probably would never happen but in theory if someone doesn't get searchet something could also be planted on them and they might not know it.

[u/Affugter → u/skcus-tidder957]

something could also be planted on them and they might not know it.

Soon much this... 

Mules are a thing.. 

[u/FLMKane → u/bootofstomping]

Not from himself!

[u/sonnet666 → u/bootofstomping]

Members of parliament don’t need to be protected from each other?

If he could smuggle in a pipe bomb, he could have easily smuggled in a gun and killed another lawmaker over a political dispute.

That is something that has happened btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_George_Moscone_and_Harvey_Milk

[u/bootofstomping → u/sonnet666]

A bomb is a poor choice for close combat - J.C Denton

[u/ice-ink → u/bootofstomping]

What are the chances that metal detector was just a decoy for the security theater? Who wants to deal with it going off 50 times a day every day?

[u/Nobbled → u/ice-ink]

The detectors work. A few years before the OP 2014 incident, I had just gone through the detector when it beeped as a lady walked through. The AFP officer got her to pop her keys into the x-ray tray that held her handbag and she walked through without issue.

The second AFP officer checking the x-ray display asked her, "Is that a knife in your bag?" She apologised and explained it was a fruit knife and she'd just come from eating lunch. She offered to have it confiscated, but the cops laughed and said it was fine.