It seemed simple enough. Plant some plastic explosives in checked luggage and see if screeners find it all.

Of course, a check list noting that eight bags contained real bombs might have been helpful, especially after Slovakia airport security managed to nab seven bombs. That other bag, which belonged to a real passenger, was now carrying 90 grams of live (but stable, authorities are quick to point out) explosives and it was loaded up onto a plane, according to the BBC News.

The bag and the passenger arrived in Dublin without incident, and the 49-year-old man walked out of the airport with the explosives in hand, oblivious to the bomb inside his bag. Now that’s just James Bond kind of calm, cool and collected.

On Tuesday, however, Slovakia authorities notified the Irish government that they may have accidentally sent a bomb to the Emerald Island. To which, the Irish Army descended up on the man’s home, surrounded it and arrested the man, who was not identified.

That left the would-be (unbeknownst to him) bomber struggling to understand why armed soldiers were surrounding his house, why bomb squad personnel were walking through is front door and why he was now under arrest.

Later that day, after everything was straightened out, the man was released, no doubt, grateful, he was the unwitting test subject to a plan that unfolded in Dublin, not Detroit.

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