Flying? New TSA Carry-On Baggage Rules

http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060810-1252 ^ | 8-10-06

[IonImplantGuru]

You've got to be the fastest reader I ever heard of! One novel on a cross-country flight each way is the best that I can do.

Naahhh! Certain is 'cheating'; those are comic books and Cliff-Notes he's reading.

[The Shrew]

They want the opportunity to loose/damage/destroy more luggage.

No, this is a negotiating ploy for their baggage handler unions. They are bargaining this away in lieu of a 10% pay increase. They are offering only 3% but the opportunity to rifle luggage.< / sarcasm>

Regards,

TS

[IonImplantGuru]

"And Monica Lewinsky will have to spit before boarding."

You owe me a new keyboard, Larry!

Actually, the other day my wife asked me, "Why do men spit all the time?" My reply? "Honey, real men never swallow!"

[Chuckster]

>two drops of Victor Xray can off the entire planeload.< Ok, the only "Victor Xray" I know of is an old style Xray tube. What the h. e. double hocky pucks do you mean???

"Victor Xray" is phonetic alphabet used by the military for "VX", a nerve agent. Very lethal.

[CertainInalienableRights]

Certain is 'cheating'; those are comic books and Cliff-Notes he's reading.

Maybe "novel" was the wrong word. I read three books.

One was David McCullough's "1776" (admittedly, one of his thinner works). Another was "Benedict Arnold's Navy" by James Nelson. The third was a Tom Clancy novel. Frankly, as much as I like Clancy, after a couple of weeks I can't differentiate one from another in my memory so I don't know which one it was.

That said, comic books would have been more informative than the rags passed off as magazines. And Cliff's Notes got me through college.

[Larry Lucido]

Good answer. :-)

[varina davis]

Any new anti-terrorist rules should also apply to trains, buses and ships.

[Paved Paradise]

This really sucks, especially for women. I can't imagine how you'd put your contacts in the case without liquid! What would kill me is the hand lotion. My hands are so dry, I need it constantly so I'd probably fight to the death to keep it.

I heard a few comments on the radio today and they were primarily criticisms with our security. We seem to look at objects while El Al, for example, looks at people. I think we should get rid of the bad people, vs. bad objects.

Anyway, it's a thought.

[FreedomCalls]

For instance, I use a soap that is only available from its manufacturer, a woman who makes it out of her house.

Does she make it in a big vat out by the cement pond?

[NearlyNormal]

So much for all the pacemaker users out there; kiss 'em goodbye. I think your proposed method would snuff the pacemakers.

Actually, my post was more tongue-in-cheek. If anyone were to seriously consider such an approach, there would obviously be a need for some "pre-screening" to tailor the methodology (... particularly for the flatulent passengers ;-O).

On a more serious note, I'd be all for a "triage" screening process that would examine 100% of entrants, and would actually begin at the traffic gates to the airport. (Damn right this would include profiling!) If anything was remotely suspicious, I'd route it through a set of procedures that would be designed not only to detect, but totally destroy the threat and its transport.

Neat and clean: no ACLU, no CAIR, no lawyers, no liberal judges, no incarceration, and very little inconvenience and delay to the innocent passengers.

[IonImplantGuru]

"On a more serious note, I'd be all for a "triage" screening process that would examine 100% of entrants, and would actually begin at the traffic gates to the airport. (Damn right this would include profiling!) If anything was remotely suspicious, I'd route it through a set of procedures that would be designed not only to detect, but totally destroy the threat and its transport. Neat and clean: no ACLU, no CAIR, no lawyers, no liberal judges, no incarceration, and very little inconvenience and delay to the innocent passengers."

I can live with that.