Salon writer Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot by trade, tells the maddening tale of trying to get through security with a fork, spoon and butter knife -- the same silverware that is routinely issued to the passengers Smith shuttles about the globe. As you can imagine, Smith, wearing his uniform and identifying himself as a pilot, was able to easily convince the TSA checkpoint agents that his silverware posed no threat to the cockpit or flying public. ... Uh, actually, it didn't go that way at all.
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Ironically enough if you take Lufthansa, they give you "real" silverware on the Plane. I guess they just don't get it about security...
USA going down in flames with paranoia...
I do the infosec thing for a living
I was talking to my aunt-in-law-to-be, who happens to be an ecologist, after they flew in and I was expressing my irritation with the TSA and she mentioned that they were perfectly polite. I asked her if it mattered how polite I was if I suddenly decided to pass myself off as an ecological expert and tell her how to do her job. Her reply was "point taken".
The single reply to anything the TSA says in my brain is an indignant "Don't you presume to tell ME what's for my own safety!"
I don't know why it gets under my skin... yes I do, I would never get away with destroying a business with so many pointless and terrible security measures and I don't think anyone else should get away with it either.
Maybe when people get enough
I am glad to see that some people are finally beginning to wake up and smell the coffee. This outrageous misjustice has to be stopped. Perhaps when people finally get fed up enough, it will stop. This ABUSE is exactly why I refuse to travel on airlines. I have not, and will not, patronise airlines since the heightened "security" (wink-wink) regulations were IMPOSED. Oh, I am so afraid that someone will actually bring a bottle of shampoo on the plane. BALDERDASH! This is all stuff and nonsense, and EVERYONE KNOWS IT!
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