10月25日，美国加州圣迭戈市的国际机场经历了一次炸弹恐慌，而引起恐慌的竟是一辆玩具汽车和一块曲奇饼干。

    据路透社10月26日报道，原来，加州圣迭戈国际机场有关人员错误地将放置在一名乘客行李中的玩具汽车和曲奇饼干当做了制造炸弹的零部件。当这件行李通过安检关口时，X光机旁的安检人员立即举起了一面红色旗帜后，圣迭戈国际机场的工作人员立即关闭了这里的交通终端，并将乘客向外疏散了大约1个小时。

    美国运输安全管理部门的女发言人詹尼弗·佩平表示：“从X光机里看上去，这些物品混杂在一起时会给人这样一种印象——一件临时拼凑而成的爆炸装置。”按照佩平的说法，在通过X光机检查时，曲奇饼干看上去很像是一种可以充当自制炸弹原材料的有机物质。她同时还表示，安检人员可能还注意到同在行李中的儿童玩具汽车的电池或电线。为此，在旅行包内的可疑物品被证明没有危险之前，已有数架航班受到了延误。

    在此次炸弹恐慌发生之前，圣迭戈以北的两家机场——长滩机场和约翰·韦恩机场在25日清晨均接到了已被安放炸弹的恐吓电话。警方对两家机场进行了严密搜查，但并未发现任何炸弹。

    A toy car and a cookie prompted a bomb scare at San Diego airport on Tuesday when they were mistaken for possible bomb-making parts in a passenger's luggage.

    Officials closed the commuter terminal at San Diego International Airport and evacuated passengers for about an hour after baggage screeners using X-ray equipment raised a red flag.

    "Both of those items together on the screen gave the appearance of an ... improvised explosive device," Transport Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin said.

    Peppin said that, seen on the X-ray, the cookie resembled organic material that could be a raw component of a homemade bomb. Inspectors may also have spotted batteries or wire in the child's toy car, she said.

    A handful of flights were delayed until the contents of the suspect bag proved harmless.

    The scare followed bomb threats phoned in around dawn on Tuesday to two airports north of San Diego -- Long Beach and Orange County's John Wayne airport in the Los Angeles area. Both airports were searched but nothing was found.