[Slings and Arrows]

Looks like the baggage screeners are getting their Christmas shoplifting done early this year.

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Bodacious]

"the agency is recommending that passengers buy plastic cables or zip ties at hardware stores as an alternative to suitcase locks. Such clasps can be cut off easily by screeners needing to look inside baggage, officials said, and they provide some deterrence against tampering."

And just what % of "inspected" baggage will arive with ALL of it's contents? They have trouble just getting my bags to the same airport within the same 24 hour period that I do.
Bet that every baggage handler will have clippers, a sharp knife, tin snips, and replacement " cables or issued locks in their pockets........then Christmas would be all year long!!

[Marobe]

Boycott the airlines !

[danneskjold]

Preparing the public for yet another big change in air travel, the government asked passengers Thursday to stop packing certain kinds of items in checked bags, including, for example, Christmas fruitcakes.

High-tech bomb-detection devices might mistake them for explosives.

There actually might be something to this...I've known a fruitcake or two to blow up, after being digested...

[Tauzero]

The Keystone Cops strike again.

bttt

[Diana Rose]

Marzipan can trip the C4 detector because of the similar density.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The airline industry seems to have forgotten that, without passengers, airlines themselves are unnecessary.

[Riley]

< Maxwell Smart >

"It's the old exploding fruitcake trick!"

< /Maxwell Smart >

[angkor]

No fruitcakes? Shoes on top? Unlocked checked luggage?

This is more than ridiculous, it's phenomenally, stupifylingly pathetic.

Look for USA Patriot Air - out future nationalized airline - to be the only remaining air carrier in business by 2004.

Meanwhile 1,000 illegals and 1,000 kilos of coke cross the Mexican border every day, along with god knows what else.

[razorback-bert]

certain kinds of items in checked bags, including, for example, Christmas fruitcakes.

Hmmm

[PAR35]

asked passengers to refrain from packing any food or beverages in checked bags and to pack shoes and boots on top of other contents.

Sounds like the program is being run by PETA. If you have leather shoes, your bag will (pronounced vill) be opened and searched for other contraband.

[LadyDoc]

the government asked passengers Thursday to stop packing certain kinds of items in checked bags, including, for example, Christmas fruitcakes.

AHHHH EXPLODING FRUITCAKE ALERT EXPLODING FRUITCAKE ALERT

Seriously, my Filippino relatives had a whole suitcase full of goodies to take there, and another suitcase of goodies to bring back. If they are checking our bags, we'll be in trouble...

[iconoclast]

Preparing the public for yet another big change in air travel, the government asked passengers Thursday to stop packing certain kinds of items in checked bags, including, for example, Christmas fruitcakes.

Beam me up!

I have three questions for y'all.

1. Could we get any LESS nonsense from a leftwing government?

2. Could you name me one night in the last 10 years when you have gone to bed worried about what Saddam Hussein was going to do the next day?

3. Do you ever stop and think about such questions?

[Eala]

I like this "hand-inspection" element. Do you suppose the screeners will put on new gloves every single time they open another bag?

Think about the dirty laundry they're be putting their hands on, and all the other things like lice that might be present in that laundry. And lucky you, your bag is the next one they stick their hands in.

[Eala]

the government asked passengers Thursday to stop packing ...Christmas fruitcakes.

"But sir, this isn't a Christmas fruitcake, it's a Kwanzaa fruitcake!"

[PBRSTREETGANG]

...including, for example, Christmas fruitcakes.

High-tech bomb-detection devices might mistake them for explosives.

This one may be understandable because nobody would ever identify fruitcakes as food.

[Deguello]

Shoplifting indeed!

This will be the end of hunters packing their long arms. If it cannot be locked/chained and then marked with security tape, then one can cancell all flights for big game hunts. Do not expect your legally packed handguns to survive either.

[Veggie Todd]

Looks like I'll be sending everything ahead on UPS before my trip.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Y2k Fruitcake and You

Written in a state of somnambulambic inebriation.

[freepatriot32]

you know what iwas thinking if you are traveling withing say 400-500 miles since you haveto show up 2 hours before your flight leaves to get through security plus the goverment mandated sexual assault you gotta go through by horny feds that cant get to 2cd base with a willing women and some small children outside an airport terminal you would get there faster if you took amtrack and it would be about 1/2 the cost thats what ive been doing since 9/11 and havent run into the new gestapo agents in a train station yet its somethig for all freepers to think about and what i also do is send a letter to every major airline i use to fly telling them exactly why they lostmy business and how much i use to spend on their airlines per year