[LARoss]

Time to let our FReeping voices be heard? I did my part:

Email to Spokane Airport:

I am writing to express concern over published reports of theft by security personnel in your airport. In the fragile public relations environment airlines face, it would seem wise to avoid such incidents, and to work diligently to rectify them when they do occur. Certainly in the case within the past week of the silver charm taken from Ann Coulter, a nationally syndicated columnist, I would think you would want to do everything possible to avoid damaging the public perception of your airport.

Please do the right thing. Make sure Ms. Coulter's property is returned to her, or punish the individuals involved. Such an act of integrity would go a long way toward rebuilding your good faith relationship with the American people.

Prove us wrong about you. Thank you for your time.

Respectfully yours,
L. Ross
Pennsylvania

Here's the email address if you're interested: twoodard@spokaneairports.net

[ChemistCat]

Thanks for the email address and for the ping.

In my letter to this person, I suggest the use of a file box at the gate. If a passenger has something you really really don't want him or her to take on board, drop the item into a padded envelope and write the name of the passenger on an area of the envelope with protected dry erase. (Plastic panel, clear plastic cover over the panel.) The envelopes all go in a file box, and the file box is locked and put in with gate checked stuff (strollers, wheelchairs, and the like.) Theft would be harder.

Of course, my preference (also stated in the letter) would be for the Todd Beamers of this country to carry weapons on board. I can see a little airport shop selling guns and plane-safe ammunition.