I was reading Fight Club the other day, and the author had one of the characters, an airline security person, say that vibrating luggage was more of a concern than say, ticking luggage. A couple of weeks ago, I read how an airline or security company was being sued because they made a woman open her luggage to check on a vibrating dildo, thereby embarrassing her. Why would the security people be more concerned about something vibrating than something tickikng? Doesn’t everyone use mercury switches or electronic timers now anyway?
Fight Club was written in '95 or '96, so I don’t think it could be used as a standard for airline security these days.
In regards to the woman’s vibrator that went off: simply because airline security checked out a piece of luggage that vibrates doesn’t mean they are more concerned about vibrating luggage than ticking luggage, it just means they are concerned about something suspicious. Even if 99.99% of the world’s terrrorists used mercury switches, it doesn’t mean they should ignore anything that doesn’t fall into its profile.