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I dunno. It pretty much mirrors what I overhear constantly from people in airports.

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Originally posted by braslvr:
I dunno. It pretty much mirrors what I overhear constantly from people in airports.

Please don't shatter my little world. I want to have hope.

Most people don't travel much. Those people who don't travel much, or long distance, are the same people who think excessive security measures are a good idea. Those same people represent the majority of people who are polled.

I have no figures to back up my statements, but I suspect that is the case.

Remember, this is the same bunch of who only 17% have passports and think that Carrot Top is a great comedian.

The threat is real folks: Terrorists could attack aircraft with gel-filled bras

Guns N Rollers airport terror t-shirt alert

Keen security personnel at Birmingham International Airport ordered a man to turn his t-shirt inside out because it bore a drawing of two crossed guns.

Staffordshire design engineer Dave Osbourne was wearing a Guns N Rollers t-shirt.

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I ride the airlines to work often -- if I show up in uniform, the "old" rules apply - I can take my toothpaste and water bottle with me thru security and onto the plane. However if I'm not wearing my uniform, even the fact I have an airline ID badge nets me nothing. No toothpaste or water through security. and even these rules aren't applied uniformly.

i think i'll just always travel in uniform now, even on vacation, and be able to brush my teeth onboard and drink my water.

Oh yeah THAT's fair! Let the people in the uniforms have toothpaste and water..... like they're not capable of being a terrorist or anything. What's that about??

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Originally posted by Canuck Girl:
Oh yeah THAT's fair! Let the people in the uniforms have toothpaste and water..... like they're not capable of being a terrorist or anything. What's that about??

Buy your airline uniforms here

and it's can't be that hard to make a fake ID?

Not that I'd like my "privleges" taken away, but seriously, this is a gaping loophole for bad guys to exploit, and I'm sure they already know it.

I know it's a long shot but I seriously hope we're allowed to bring water onboard by January. I can survive my 90 min flight to Vancouver in December without bringing water. But not a 4 hr flight to Toronto and then another 4 hr flight to Cuba...

Newly Banned Items Often Fly Past Airport Screeners

Wendy Shanker was passing through security at the St. Louis airport Friday when the X-ray machine detected a potential weapon inside her carry-on bag. A screener dug into the satchel and found a pair of scissors that Shanker used for knitting. The scissors' blades were shorter than the 4-inch federal limit so the screener plopped them back into the bag.

But he missed something else: Shanker's two-ounce container of Neutrogena hand cream, a substance banned since federal authorities clamped down last month on allowing liquids and gels into airline passenger cabins.

"They focused in on the scissors and didn't seem to see the cream," said Shanker, who didn't realize it was in her bag until she was on her way to Washington Dulles International Airport.

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Originally posted by Stoo:
Guns N Rollers airport terror t-shirt alert
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*groan*
seriously, are we all in high school here? A kid in my class was once made to turn his shirt inside out cuz it had a picture of a marijuana leaf on it.



and I second the water thing - it wouldn't be so bad if they would actually offer decent sized bottles of water on board, or even at the gate as you're boarding.
And I didn't realize that there was a size restriction to scissors? does that mean I shouldn't have had my 2-inch swiss letter-opener and scissors thing confiscated in Montreal? I think they're actually worse in Canada - liquids purchased passed security were ok at Heathrow, but not in Montreal. The store people had to pour our bottle of water into a coke glass for us, which was then not allowed on the plane. I don't think those wax coke glasses can be recycled.

Harry Shearer from Le Show...Tales of Airport Security: Head Injury at Heathrow

"Newly Banned Items Often Fly Past Airport Screeners" [front page, Sept. 13] identified the real threat to airport security. It is we, the flying public, who knowingly and intentionally conceal banned items that pose a threat to the security of every passenger on an airplane. Some among us have decided that the rules do not apply to them. They believe they have a right to expose hundreds of passengers to a higher level of risk because they find it inconvenient to pack banned items in their checked luggage. Their lip gloss, Chanel and hand lotions have trumped the public's need for airline safety.

I am sure that they would say that they are not terrorists, that they pose no threat, that they do not see where the threat lies in taking these items onboard, and that the new rules go too far. Regardless, their message is clear: I am above the law.

Passengers have a civic duty to comply with the law. We should make every effort to make the job of airport screeners easier, not harder by testing their ability to catch our dishonesty.

ROBERT M. COYNE

Derwood

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JK Rowling holds on tight to Harry

By Kelly Fiveash

Caught up in the airline security scare last month, JK Rowling won an argument with New York airport officials to allow her to fly with her latest Harry Potter manuscript.

Speaking on her website about being allowed on board with the manuscript, Rowling said: “I don’t know what I would have done if they hadn’t; sailed home, probably.”

She had been at a New York reading charity according to Associated Press, and was flying home at the height of security measures after British police intercepted an alleged terror plot to blow up airlines bound for the US.

“A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the US,” she said.

Eventually airline officials allowed Rowling to board with the manuscript “bound up in elastic bands.”

It’s book number seven - the final volume of the Harry Potter adventures - she is yet to come up with a title.

Hand baggage rules set to change again

The Government is expected to announce next week the fourth change in security procedures at British airports since the terror alert of August 10, prompting fears of widespread confusion for travellers.

Simon Evans, of the Air Transport Users' Council, welcomed the expected relaxation of the regulations but said passengers needed to be very clearly informed.

Since August 10, the regulations on hand luggage have already been changed three times.

So what was wrong with the Harry Potter manuscript? (Other than the obvious axis of evil/devil implications?) I would think it was more dangerous bound up with elastic bands. What if she bopped somebody with it?

I assumed that she was over her limit in carry-on bags.