E-Cig Use Sets Off Alarms, Prompts Evacuation At Austin Airport

AUSTIN, TX -- These hipsters and their newfangled e-cigarettes, I tell ya.

A visitor to South by Southwest this week caused a brief evacuation at the Ausitn-Bergstrom International Airport after his vapor cigarette set off two fire alarms while the traveler visited the bathroom around 8 p.m. on Monday.

Slight panic ensued.

The vapors set off an automatic evacuation alarm instructing travelers to exit the terminal as they were waiting to board their flights, an airport spokesman told the Austin American-Statesman.

No flights were delayed as a result, but those few weary travelers able to make it past the security checkpoint toward the exit had to wait an extra 20 minutes in line for a second TSA screening before being let back into their gates.

Hipsters. I tell ya. Assuming it was a hipster and, if not, apologies. But still.