BootsnAll Travel Community

Last month in the heat of the scare all US domestic and international pasangers had to check (as in place items in checked bagage) everything with few exceptions. Book were banned too.

Read a page or two back on this thread for all the info.

Gays on a plane

A stewardess came over to their row. “The purser wants you to stop that,” she said.

“I opened my eyes and was, like, ‘Stop what?’ ” Varnier recalled the other day.

“The touching and the kissing,” the stewardess said, before walking away.

Can We Please Bring Our Damned Coffee On the Plane Again, Idiots?

You don’t have to be a laboratory scientist or explosives expert to know the “Gatorade/iPod Bomb Plot” was total bullshit from Day One; you just need to be able to read and comprehend the simple explanations provided by said laboratory scientists or explosives experts.

Lip-gloss deprivation ends

Air travelers will have to go thirsty no more.

The Transportation Security Administration has decided to temper security with a dose of common sense.

This week TSA announced that liquids and gels purchased by passengers within the secure areas of airports will be allowed on airplanes. Also, small amounts of lip balm and other travel-size toiletries brought from home will be allowed on provided they all fit into a quart-size plastic bag. International travelers in economy class will no longer have to worry about morning breath (pricier tickets usually come with their own little baggie of amenities).

The easiest solution for any bureaucrat - and TSA has surely become a mighty collection of those - is to simply say, “No,” especially when confronted by a pot of killer-lip gloss.

It’s a lesson every toddler has learned.

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Originally posted by static:
I was detained at the TSA checkpoint for about 25 minutes today

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/28/idiot.baggie/index.html

Unlikely Terror Suspects on the TSA No-Fly List

Journalists finally got their hands on the no-fly list, and it reveals colossal government incompetence in the name of protecting air passengers.

The Transportation Security Administration's secret no-fly list includes some very unlikely terror suspects -- Bolivian president Evo Morales, 14 of the 19 dead 9/11 hijackers , and every single person named "Robert Johnson."

Wow...I feel safer already...

No Stone Unturned

When is a rock not a rock? When you pass through airport security. Then it becomes a potential weapon, one capable of bringing an airplane down.

I'm mad. I can think of a better way to combat terrorism than taking mineral specimens away from geologists traveling to their conferences.

So,rocks:NO!
My old Minolta 35mm with a telephoto that,all together weighs at least a couple pounds and has a two foot strap on it:Ok
That's so rediculous.

Airport to tag passengers


Airport security chiefs and efficiency geeks will be able to keep close tabs on airport passengers by tagging them with a high powered radio chip developed at the University of Central London.

The technology is to be trialled in Debrecen Airport in Hungary after being in development for two-and-a-half years by University College London as part of an EU-funded consortium called Optag.

Mooo...MOOOOOOO....

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Mooo...MOOOOOOO....

(*beep!*)

oh! good afternoon nerokerr! welcome aboard flt 651...

UK Passport police wipe smiles off applicants' faces

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A nine-year-old girl had her half term holiday cancelled because her teeth were showing in her passport photograph , reported The Sun newspaper.

Alys Edwards paid a last minute visit to the passport office to renew her passport with her parents in Peterborough, but was told that a photograph with teeth would overload the machine that read it.

Digital photographs have been stuck on the first generation biometric passports so computers can compare them to databases of people wanted by the police.

But the systems have not been programmed to understand that little girls are more likely to smile in photographs than plant bombs on aeroplanes.
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Originally posted by static:
I was detained at the TSA checkpoint for about 25 minutes today

Dude, that's radical!

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Airline security critic raided by Feds[/i]

Following up with this story...

Gov May Fine Boarding Pass Hacker Christopher Soghoian, the Indiana University graduate student who in late October created a fake boarding pass generator to bring attention to airport security holes, is officially under investigation by the Transportation Security Administration, as first reported here last week.

The FBI, which raided Soghoian's house and confiscated his computers and passports, dropped its investigation and returned his belongings in mid-November. Now the TSA has sent Soghoian a letter confirming its investigation of civil charges that he violated air safety laws. The fines can be up to $11,000 per violation.

27B Stroke 6 has a image of the TSA letter and Soghoian has publicly replied on his blog.

Toddler gets travel ban, arrest warrant: paper

DUBAI (Reuters) - A two-year-old boy was briefly banned from boarding a Turkey-bound flight in the United Arab Emirates after his name appeared on a list of wanted suspects, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Emirates Today said the boy's passport details, including the date of birth, matched those in an arrest warrant.

TSA screeners still fail to find guns, bombs

Going through airport security is such a pain these days. They’re still taking tubes of toothpaste, bottles of water, and anything else over three ounces away from passengers, and they’re still letting guns and bomb-making components pass right through.

A report from the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger on Friday said that Transportation Security Administration screeners failed 20 of 22 security tests performed at Newark Liberty International Airport by “Red Team” personnel, special agents tasked with testing airport security.

And this is with heightened, “orange” level “security” at airports nationwide.

Is all this extra hassel really making travel more secure? Even just a little tiny bit?

Diabetic's insulin barred from plane

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Australian airline Qantas apologized to a New Zealand passenger who fell into a diabetic coma after he was barred from bringing his insulin into the cabin.
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San Francisco airport officials cheated on security testing

Transportation Security Administration officials, along with officials of the contractor which performs passenger screening at San Francisco International Airport, compromised covert security testing by warning checkpoint screeners when a test was about to take place, a government audit found.

Yikes! Feeling safer?

6 imams removed from Twin Cities flight

MINNEAPOLIS — Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.