The Pipe Bomb was for a friend

That’s the story the man in Orlando is giving for having pipe bomb materials in his luggage:

A former Army veteran arrested after trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials onto a flight home explained that he wanted to show his friends there how to make them, authorities said Wednesday.

Regardless, this guy knew what he was doing, and that knowledge gave him away. His behavior and body language told the story:

Behavior detection officers Frank Skowronski and Jose Zengotita wouldn’t specify what Brown did that looked suspicious, saying it would undermine TSA’s strategy. But they generally study facial expressions and body posture for fear, stress and deception.

“When he came up to ticket counter, he wouldn’t look at anyone directly,” Skowronski said.

The officers watched Brown drop off two bags to be checked, and had security officials set them immediately aside.

The found “two glass vodka bottles containing nitromethane, a colorless liquid used as a fuel for drag racing, in manufacturing and as a cleaning solvent…a model rocket ignitor, galvanized pipes, end caps, two small containers containing BB’s, batteries, a laptop and instructions on how to make bombs.”

I go on a trip, my friends might get a t-shirt.