[hispanarepublicana]

I'm curious about something. Are hand mirrors or mirrored compacts also banned? I'm flying soon and curious about this. I mean, break one and it makes a great weapon. If I find myself on a plane in a hijack situation, I'm not going down without implanting half my mirror in someone.

[StriperSniper]

Are hand mirrors or mirrored compacts also banned?

Yes, you now have to use a bowl (unbreakable plastic) full of water to look at yourself.;-)

[fone]

Haven't thought about mirrors, but I understand that they are considering banning hot water for coffee and tea (throwing it in someones face can be a problem).

I can handle room-temp coffee, but I wouldn't want it to be served that way.

They can make weapons in prisons, I don't imagine it would be much effort to do the same with common available items and a decent nail file....
A decent can of hair spritz can blind you for a few minutes, what else --- pepper spray disguised as perfume, acrylic nails sharpened to points, hair bobs sharpened, the list goes on ad infinitum.

It's a cat and mouse game.

[SAS-MS]

a pair of tweezers were taken as well as a set of nail clippers on a flight from CT to KY

[Hank Rearden]

At a conference I attended last weekend, a woman from CT said they took a 3" pair of plastic scissors (little kid type) away from her purse. And they took from the elderly woman behind her a hand mirror, with nicely engraved handle, that she'd been carrying for decades.

And they threw them away. No recourse, no discussion. The old lady was in tears.

Yep, this'll reassure and attract new customers to the airlines. Morons.

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"No big deal." Just paranoia costing a lot of people 3-1/4 hours of their lives that they'll never get back, because bureaucrats can't think to save their asses.

To hell with this attitude. Airlines need to regain some common sense before they die, and terrorists need to be killed ASAP. Period. We're Americans, dammit; this crap must stop. I have no plans to fly, and will make none, until it does.

[The Real Deal]

A well sharpened pencil also makes a good weapon. You can go for the heart.

[blam]

"If I find myself on a plane in a hijack situation, I'm not going down without implanting half my mirror in someone."

I like your attitude.

[Fredgoblu]

I'm curious about something. Are hand mirrors or mirrored compacts also banned?

Good question. Security is one thing, certainly. But, I wonder if they're not going just a little too far.

I heard from a friend that she had to surrender a pair of tweezers at security, last week. What's she going to do? Threaten to pull somebody's eyebrows out one at a time? Poke somebody's eye out?

Heck, in the right hands, a shoelace could be deadly. Perhaps we should enforce a loafers-only requirement?!?!