Oh, Brother!!

[ravan]

Well, now they've gone too far - the "official" word is: NO LIQUIDS OR GELS OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED IN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE. ITEMS MUST BE IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all beverages, shampoo, suntan lotion, creams, tooth paste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency.
Well, until they stop this silliness, I won't be flying unless

Comments

[angiej]

It is plenty annoying, seeing as I've got to fly to Nashville *and* Phoenix this fall. (I'm tempted to drive back and forth to Nashville.)

[jilara]

I notice, from the similarity of our recent posts, we're on the same page on this one. Ground travel, especially in a private automobile, suddenly became MUCH more attractive, even if gas goes to $5 a gallon. Unfortunately, some destinations don't have that as an option. Fortunately, I'm not going to any of those (overseas) destinations in the foreseeable future.

Remember, we all now have to take off our shoes because some wacko decided to try to implement a plot straight out of an Austin Powers movie, with a fuse poking out of his sneakers. (Why do you think they call them "sneakers"?) Could anything be more ridiculous than that? Um, wait, don't answer that...

[spaghettisquash]

I just made international travel plans. I cannot live without sunscreen, especially not when using up that much PTO. I am so very angry. I've gone this long without checking luggage. Now, in order to continue not checking luggage, I need to buy things like toothpaste and sunscreen at my destination, where they may not even be labeled in a language I can read? How am I supposed to protect my skin? (Overexposure makes me very ill.)

Graaaarrrrgh. Thank you, FSA, for making me more concerned about my health than such a huge tragedy.

[koga]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chemicals sitting in anyone's bathroom at home could be used to make an easily smuggled bomb that would badly damage a passenger jet, and experts have been warning about this danger for years. The difficult part, experts say, is putting together such a bomb without blowing yourself up

[koga]

I spent 2 years working as an Fed Sec Screener after the TSA went online. The TSA does not make a practice, oft maligned tweezer and scissors policy aside, of purposefully inconveniancing its passengers.

[koga]

Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink

[ravan]

Technically, they could use the drug mule method of carrying such a thing - up the rectum.

That said, the explosive would not be enough to bring down the plane. Maybe depressurize it, but not bring it down, unless half the passengers blew their asses up.

It still strikes me as a frigging movie plot, and dubious. False bottoms to cans aren't that easy to make without it being noticed. Nitrocellulose clothing is more feasible.

[fizzyland]

This dumb shit seems like the recycled plot from the first Batman movie.