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Flying? New TSA Carry-On Baggage Rules
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060810-1252 ^ | 8-10-06

Posted on 08/10/2006 10:54:02 AM PDT by Hydroshock

If you're flying soon, the rules concerning what you may and may not carry onto the plane with you just changed in response to the arrest in the United Kingdom of people accused of plotting to destroy aircraft bound from England to the United States by exploding liquids in their carry-on bags. Find out the details of this thwarted terrorist plot.

Effective Thursday, Aug. 10, travelers are no longer allowed to bring the following items on board the airliner: --All liquids of any kind, including drinks --Gels --Lotions and creams, including hand lotion and sunscreen --Contacts may be brought on board in their cases, but the cases cannot contain liquid. --Hairspray --Toothpaste --Shampoo and conditioner --Liquid makeup --Perfume --Anything else that has a liquid or gel-like consistency.

Higher security means long lines and chaos in airports nationwide.

If you bring any of these items through airport security, TSA agents will confiscate them from your carry-on luggage; however, you may still place them in checked luggage. Some exceptions are granted for passengers traveling with an infant or small child. Baby formula, juice, bottled breast milk and baby food are allowed, but they will be tested by the TSA to ensure they are not explosives. Prescription drugs, insulin and some nonprescription medication are also allowed with proper identification. The new procedures cover all flights, both international and domestic. Currently, laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic devices are allowed, but that is subject to change.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; tsa
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To: Names Ash Housewares
How long before terrorist have bombs surgically implanted in their body? How would we detect that?

See this post .

41 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:16 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: MineralMan
It does include Preparation H. I suggest applying it before going through security.

That is a violation of TSA rules, and security personnel will find it during the body cavity search.

42 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:25 AM PDT by vox humana
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To: SJSAMPLE
If you count travel to and from the airport, waiting and checkin times, and all that other crap, the drive is worth it.

The problem is that you may spend more in gas than the cost of a plane ticket.

We stopped driving to New York for that reason.

43 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:42 AM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 79-82)
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To: Hydroshock
Currently, laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic devices are allowed, but that is subject to change.

It won't change, unless the government wants to be blamed for the death of the airline industry.

Businessmen simply won't travel without computers and cell phones.

In the meantime, I'm investing in Azure Wireless for the coming boom in wi-fi videoconferencing.

44 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:49 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: Doohickey
We need to start thinking about taking the opposite approach and allow passengers to arm themselves.

I sympathize with your opinion, but I fail to see how this would prevent liquid explosives from being smuggled onto an airplane.

45 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:55 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Hydroshock

Maybe flight prices will decline 50% and I'll be able to afford some tickets to Hawaii.


46 posted on 08/10/2006 11:25:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Hydroshock
I have no problem with extra security if it is done in accordance with common sense, which it most assuredly is not these days.

While waiting for my flight home at an airport last week, I watched TSA hassle at least ten very elderly men and women of obviously European descent, several in wheel chairs and with walkers, who were trying to get through the security checkpoints. It was really pathetic and even sad, and thoroughly humiliating for those folks, who were literally stumbling and falling through the metal detectors. Political correctness is going to be the end of this country...

47 posted on 08/10/2006 11:26:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: t1b8zs

"our over/self/mememe indulgence seems to surface most at these times....

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Ain't it the truth? I flew across the country the Christmas after 9/11. Actually, despite the extra security, it was kinda nice. The plane wasn't bursting at the seams with passengers.

I've always been an early arriver at airports. I check my luggage, go through security, then have a nice meal at the best restaurant I can find inside security.

Then, I get on my plane and fly to my destination, where I pick up my rental car and go enjoy my trip, whether it's business or pleasure.

I've adjusted to the new security screening stuff as it has changed. So far, in all my flights since 9/11, I've never had anything other than the normal screening. I don't have any metal on me when I pass through, and my checked luggage doesn't have anything that will bother anyone in it.

When I take my notebook PC, I have it out for inspection. I remember a short period where the regional airport I usually flew out of required you to turn on your notebook for them to see.

So far, travel hasn't gotten any more complicated than it ever was for me. And I'm a big old full-bearded man with long hair. I look like a well-dressed biker.

I suspect that most of the people stressing out over their own inconvenience don't fly anyhow.


48 posted on 08/10/2006 11:27:41 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: Texas Federalist

You don't. You let the contacts shrivel up.

So now I guess I'm supposed to wear my glasses and check my contacts because I can't even bring re-wetting drops on board for when my contacts get a bit dry.


49 posted on 08/10/2006 11:28:15 AM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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To: Rummyfan

I flew in July and because of a mix-up on my ticket I had to get the full treatment. I didn't find it all that bad and it didn't seem to take that long.


50 posted on 08/10/2006 11:30:22 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Hydroshock
Contacts may be brought on board in their cases, but the cases cannot contain liquid.

I don't know about y'all, but if my contacts aren't immersed in liquid, they turn into teensy little clear potato-chip-lookin' thingies and will never be fit for insertion again.
51 posted on 08/10/2006 11:30:43 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.)
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To: NittanyLion

"It also guarantees nightmarish waits at airports, since every business traveler who brushes their teeth or washes their hair will now need to check their bag.
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That's just silly. I travel all the time. I NEVER take shampoo, or even toothpaste. You can always get those things in the gift shop of your hotel, and the shampoo's right there in your room.

I quit taking liquids in my luggage, checked or carry-on, after a toothpaste tube got crushed by something and squirted the crap all over the stuff in my carry-on.

Of course, I'm a guy, and don't need twelve bottles of various lotions and unguents to stay beautiful.

It's just not that big a deal.


52 posted on 08/10/2006 11:30:45 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: sinkspur

You will still be able to pack them in you checked baggage. It is now the rule in UK you have to do this to all electronics. Rules changed today.


53 posted on 08/10/2006 11:30:52 AM PDT by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: MineralMan
I quit taking liquids in my luggage, checked or carry-on, after a toothpaste tube got crushed by something and squirted the crap all over the stuff in my carry-on.

My FRiend, that's what Zip-Loc bags are for.

54 posted on 08/10/2006 11:31:40 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: dmz

I still think I would prefer going by air in the northeast. I drove from CT to the Newark area last year and it took house. Getting through NYC is so stressful.

I gave up driving from CT to northern VA several years ago. Were it not for the crawl thru NYC I would still consider it but that was too much for me. Even getting to the NY border on I-95 alway seems slow with either an accident every day, or constant road work.


55 posted on 08/10/2006 11:32:23 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: MineralMan
So far, travel hasn't gotten any more complicated than it ever was for me. And I'm a big old full-bearded man with long hair. I look like a well-dressed biker.

That's why security doesn't hassle you. If you were an 80-year-old grandmother, you would have been strip searched.

56 posted on 08/10/2006 11:32:30 AM PDT by vox humana
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To: OldFriend
>>LOLOL.....my poor husband would jump out of the car and run away if he had to drive me very far. LOL.....poor guy!

I would go the the end of the earth to see my kids.<<

:)

The Xbox is actually for me... otherwise I've been known to make her drive and pull off the road anytime I think I catch enough of a wireless signal to check in on Freep.
57 posted on 08/10/2006 11:32:41 AM PDT by gondramB (We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished and the works of your dark master)
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To: Hydroshock

That's ok ... the terrorists will just stick nitroglycerin and mercury fulminate up their butts in balloons before getting on the plane.


58 posted on 08/10/2006 11:32:42 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Islam is a subsingularity memetic perversion : (http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/perversities.html))
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To: elc

"So now I guess I'm supposed to wear my glasses and check my contacts because I can't even bring re-wetting drops on board for when my contacts get a bit dry.
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That's a good idea. That would be my call, if I wore contacts. A pretty simple solution, I'd say.


59 posted on 08/10/2006 11:34:34 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan
That's just silly. I travel all the time. I NEVER take shampoo, or even toothpaste. You can always get those things in the gift shop of your hotel, and the shampoo's right there in your room. I quit taking liquids in my luggage, checked or carry-on, after a toothpaste tube got crushed by something and squirted the crap all over the stuff in my carry-on. Of course, I'm a guy, and don't need twelve bottles of various lotions and unguents to stay beautiful. It's just not that big a deal.

Well, I'm also a guy who travels all the time on business. Two trips in the next ten days. I generally don't have time to stop for contact solution & toothpaste (shampoo I can get at the hotel) every time I land.

Incidentally, I can't recall ever having a problem with stuff squirting all over my luggage.

60 posted on 08/10/2006 11:35:05 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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