From Amy Davidson at The New Yorker:
It’s hard to say who was thinking less clearly: Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards, who brought four guns into his locker room and then, depending on whom you believe, laid them out with a note that said “Pick one” as a joke or to threaten a teammate about a gambling debt; or Slovakian airport security, which planted real explosive materials in the luggage of an unwitting passenger as part of a training exercise and then, when the passenger got past the checkpoint, let the materials go on a plane to Ireland, through the Dublin airport, and home with the still ignorant passenger before alerting Irish authorities in terms unclear enough to cause them to surround the man’s apartment building and arrest him. What if someone had been shot before it was cleared up? (That question applies to both the basketball and airport scenarios.) There’s no tie breaker in the contrition department: Arenas released an apologetic statement, but then did a quick-draw pantomime during a pregame huddle; the Slovaks apologized, too, but then said that everyone was overreacting and that the Irish press was being mean to them.