Next time you fly, leave the brass knuckles at home [vanity]

TSA ^ | 8/10/06 | Self

[My2Cents]

With the investigation still on-going regarding the thwarted terrorist attack on Britain-to-US flights, we've received a security travel advisory from our company. It includes a link to a Federal Transportation Safety Agency list of allowed and prohibited items on commercial flights. Not to make light of the heightened security, but I would file the TSA list under “No Brainers.” Here’s a quick list of some of the things you CANNOT take on board a commercial airplane:

• Box cutters
• Ice picks
• Meat cleavers
• Sabers
• Hockey sticks (extremely dangerous item in the wrong hands)
• Spear guns
• Ammunition
• Starter pistols
• Hatchets
• Cattle prods
• Brass knuckles
• Stun guns
• Dynamite
• Hand grenades
• Tear gas

…just in case you didn’t know.

[RushCrush]

What about rolls of quarters? I could fill my pockets with quarters and then methodically roll them once on the plane (with some masking tape)....see, we're never 100% safe!

[Thud]

I'm more upset about the ban on soft drinks. Next they won't let us carry our own water bottles on board lest those have hydrogen peroxide in them.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Or the magnificent moose.

[Lady Jag]

Oh good, I'll bring my slingshot.

[teacherwoes]

I guess nuclear weapons are okay to bring onboard.

[Disambiguator]

Baseball bats. They are especially on the lookout for these in the Louisville, Kentucky airport.

[My2Cents]

Sad to say, but the four flights hijacked on 9/11 could have benefitted from a few passengers packing brass knuckles.

[KarlInOhio]

Sabers

But foils and epees are just fine.

And what about cutlasses and claymores (either type)?

[My2Cents]

The weapon of mass destruction seen most on America's commercial airliners is the in-flight food.

[taxcontrol]

There is NO ban on liquids on the planes people.... it is only liquids THOUGH TSA. You can still buy soda's and water and what ever... IF there is a vendor behind the TSA security screening.

[Kolb]

What about pointed sticks?

[My2Cents]

I'm sure the TSA also frowns upon a passenger with a sharp sense of humor.

[steveo]

they left off snakes.

[Centurion2000]

Kindjals only .... maybe a Coustille if you are lucky.

[My2Cents]

The pen is mightier than the sword. I pack pens onto flight all the time.

[steve-b]

Er, no. You can't take it on the plane even if you bought it inside the secure zone.

[John Lenin]

But, but my knuckles are just a paper weight ...

[Uriah_lost]

That is correct. I took a guy down myself when he made a comment about having a gun and then reached into his jacket. He ate carpet, thank you very much. He thought he was really funny....I thought I was funnier.

[Dilbert San Diego]

We're all going to have to fly nude eventually.