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We took suspicious looking items through airport security on wednesday: massive glass candlesticks look opaque in the x ray machines, and had to be inspected.
Those things are heavy. The smallest weighed over a pound, the next one weighed 3 pounds, and the heaviest (which we left at my parents) weighed five pounds. I bet I could have done quite a bit more damage with them than with a carton of orange juice.
I look forward to seeing what will happen with the airport tax free industry if they stick with these measures.
Fun consequences of new security measures.
Conclusion: The proper management of suspicious potential explosives is to unceremoniously dump them together in large vats where they can be expected to mix into a giant fission bomb, and all liquid things sold in airports past security checkpoints are potential explosives.
In other news, the terrorists are winning.
Those things are heavy. The smallest weighed over a pound, the next one weighed 3 pounds, and the heaviest (which we left at my parents) weighed five pounds. I bet I could have done quite a bit more damage with them than with a carton of orange juice.
I look forward to seeing what will happen with the airport tax free industry if they stick with these measures.
Fun consequences of new security measures.
Conclusion: The proper management of suspicious potential explosives is to unceremoniously dump them together in large vats where they can be expected to mix into a giant fission bomb, and all liquid things sold in airports past security checkpoints are potential explosives.
In other news, the terrorists are winning.
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Yeah, it reminds me of that one Dangermouse episode where the hacked washing machines got all piled together and morphed into a Suds Monster.
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...you know, were the writers of Dangermouse ever not high?
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I suspect that if/when I go to England next year, I'll be taking the ferry. Leaving aside the distinct possibility of not being allowed to take a book on the flight (which is admittedly less than an hour, but one is likely to spend double that waiting - bookless - after checking in), I *really* object to my camera going into the hold, both because it is a fairly sensitive piece of equipment and thus not meant for a cold, unpressurised hold, and because I have no way of packing it that will protect it enough from rough handling by baggage handlers. I imagine people with laptops will feel much the same.
I can live with all kinds of checks on equipment, but I'd like to be able to take my stuff with me and have it get there in one piece.