The Next Threat: Butt Bombs

After the underwear bomber, travelers can expect more intimate pat downs at the airport. But, The New Republic writes, “Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won’t protect us completely—not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an underwear bomb and that is also more alarming: the butt bomb.” A butt bomb could be carried inside condoms in a terrorist’s anal cavity, similar to how drug mules carry their loads.