AIRPORT SECURITY REMAINS PATHETIC:

As a screener at Newark Liberty International Airport, Pythias Brown was supposed to keep deadly objects off airplanes. But for the past year, authorities allege, Brown has been swiping electronic equipment from luggage of the passengers he was supposed to protect.

A laptop here, a cell phone there. Within months, he had snatched more than 100 items, authorities say.

But this summer, Brown got too ambitious for his own good, allegedly stealing a $47,900 camera from an HBO crew and a camcorder from a CNN employee, authorities said. Brown attracted the attention of one of his victims — and eventually investigators — when he tried to sell the equipment on eBay, the online auction site, authorities said.

I’ve been complaining about airport security for years. Just remember: If he could get away with stealing things from checked baggage, someone else could have just as easily planted a bomb in checked baggage.