[EODGUY]

Actually Squantos and I spoke about divulging EOD or IED info on this site and we agreed completely to refrain from doing so. Suffice it to say, when I read the list of items found, I could hear the wheels in both my and Squantos' head spinning.

[Travis McGee]

On Christmas Eve I was catching a flight from Min. St Paul to Baltimore. I was in the concourse near the final ticket counter, next to the jetway.

A big guy seated in my waiting area was carrying a case of beer in brown bottles, no doubt some "special local brew" he wanted to treat relatives and friends to at his destination. The case of bottled beer was in another brown cardboard box, open at the top but held down with duct tape.

I couldn't believe this, knowing that liquid explosives have been used before to bypass airport security. The Philippino case mentioned above is one example.

I went right to the uniformed airline people and pointed out this unusual "carryone luggage" and asked them if it was permitted. They said "well, if beer is not on the list of banned items, then it's okay to carry on board". Incredible.

Even if none of the brown bottles contained explosives, fuel or accelerants (acetone etc) they could be hurled or broken to be used as 24 weapons.

Somehow, this stupidity did not shock me.

[PatrioticAmerican]

There is nothing on this site that cannot be found on the internet. Maybe triggering an idea is a bad thing and we should refrain, but let's not be so full of ourselves as to think that kids or terrorists cannot find what they need to blow themselves up. A simple yahoo search for "Nitroglycerin" shows over 40,000+ hits.