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Airports to ban cigarette lighters beyond checkpoints
Duluth News Tribune ^ | 12/31/04 | BRYON OKADA/Knight Ridder

Posted on 12/31/2004 10:16:18 PM PST by wagglebee

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I just think this is going too damn far.
1 posted on 12/31/2004 10:16:21 PM PST by wagglebee
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What about matches?


2 posted on 12/31/2004 10:17:55 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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It says that they are probably next, but they don't know how they could find matches other than through physical searches.


3 posted on 12/31/2004 10:19:04 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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How about securing the borders instead?


4 posted on 12/31/2004 10:19:40 PM PST by thoughtomator (Flush twice, it's a long way to France)
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To: wagglebee

March 1st is suspenders.

April 1st is pantyhose.


Do we know how to fight a war on terror, or what!


5 posted on 12/31/2004 10:19:55 PM PST by exit82 (Iran and Syria......the bombing should have started five minutes ago.)
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Maybe I'll carry two sticks in protest. Or a stick, a bow, and a board with a shallow hole in it with a pocket full of tinder.


6 posted on 12/31/2004 10:20:44 PM PST by Riley
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To: wagglebee

Blue tip matches are easy to carry.


7 posted on 12/31/2004 10:20:57 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: thoughtomator

For whatever the reason they seem more interested in making the lives of law abiding CITIZENS as difficult as possible. Illegal aliens are free to enter at will, but God help the guy who just wants a cigarette.


8 posted on 12/31/2004 10:21:32 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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To: wagglebee

THIS is crazy!


9 posted on 12/31/2004 10:24:49 PM PST by netmilsmom (God send you a Blessed 2005!)
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Stupid Senators!

They ought to be old enough to know that the plastic the he had in his shoe cannot be blown up by lighting it, it requires a detonator. If he had lit it he would have had the all time hot foot, it burns real neat!


10 posted on 12/31/2004 10:25:41 PM PST by dalereed
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Shhh! Don't complain too loudly. They'll make smoking prohibited, yet.


11 posted on 12/31/2004 10:25:45 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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"and to prohibit passengers from carrying butane lighters aboard planes."

Zippo stock in 2005?


12 posted on 12/31/2004 10:25:51 PM PST by politicalwit (Import poverty...hire an illegal today)
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I guess they haven't thought about someone running amok with fingernail clippers yet! That little metal file attachement could be used as a weapon-I say we ban those too!


13 posted on 12/31/2004 10:26:41 PM PST by derllak
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I see zippoes going off the shelves.

Since I don't smoke or fly anymore, I can fart in your direction>

14 posted on 12/31/2004 10:26:43 PM PST by dts32041 (When did the Democratic party stop being the political arm of the KKK?)
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how did the body cavity explosive Chechen women detonate their hidden bombs? there is no reason to have a lighter or matches on a plane, you can't smoke anyway.


15 posted on 12/31/2004 10:27:28 PM PST by oceanview
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A lot of airports already have. Try a two hour layover in Detroit, no smoking anywhere and the checkpoint lines are too long to go outside and still have time to get back in.


16 posted on 12/31/2004 10:28:01 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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To: derllak

Fingernail clippers were banned immediately after 9/11.


17 posted on 12/31/2004 10:28:49 PM PST by wagglebee (Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
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First FR post of the new year. You, like me, needs to get a life.


18 posted on 12/31/2004 10:29:34 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus (http://www.numbersusa.com. Cut, paste, bookmark and use it often. Doesn't cost you a cent.)
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"Zippo stock in 2005?"

They'll get my Zippo when they pry it form my cold dead fingers!

;^D

19 posted on 12/31/2004 10:30:55 PM PST by RebelTex (Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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To: oceanview

The point is for when you land. You fly to a distant city, and have cigarettes in your pocket. Why should you have to buy a lighter?


20 posted on 12/31/2004 10:31:11 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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