BATTERY MAN

Keith Nuthall
AN AIR passenger wearing electrical flashing shoes caused officials to cordon off part of San Francisco airport's departure terminal, when security staff spotted a battery inside when they were put through an X-ray machine. The traveller had arrived from China to make a domestic connection.



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