Online newspaper comment of the day

The story of the dead teenager found in Milton, Massachusetts keeps getting more and more like an episode of "CSI" or "Law & Order." At this point, I'm half expecting to see David Caruso and his stupid sunglasses in the background of a live news shot one of these days.

One of the big questions surrounding the disappearance of 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale has been, "How the hell did he go from being in bed in North Carolina to being dead in Massachusetts in less than 24 hours?" An obvious theory is that he took a plane (as in, bought a ticket with an actual seat), then ran into some kind of trouble in Massachusetts.

A less obvious theory -- but one that's being explored now -- is that he stowed away in the wheel well of a plane, died at high altitude and then fell to the ground in Milton when the plane's landing gear deployed.

You may know that the airlines don't sell tickets for wheel-well passengers. They don't even let you go standby. To get into the wheel well of a plane, you have to do some pretty crazy stuff -- like, somehow sneak by airport security and then into the secure area of the airport, or get through the airport's security fences and onto the runway. Calling that a "major security breach" would be an understatement. Which brings us to today's online newspaper comment of the day, courtesy of "GomerPyle" on BostonHerald.com:

If a high school kid can stow away, unnoticed, in the wheel well of a commercial airliner, there is certainly no need for TSA to continue scanning and searching old ladies in the airport terminals.