The Transportation Security Administration finally wised up and plans to stop worrying about miniature scissors, nail clippers and other small sharp objects. Instead, inspectors will spend more time conducting random searches and looking for bombs. Brilliant!
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Yeah! Which is what they should have done in the first place. I remember hearing the story about a Sky Marshal, who is allowed to take a firearm aboard, was passing through the TSA screeners. Showed them his badge, ID, and job assignment. Guess what the screeners did. Yep! They still took away his nail clippers. LOL!
I loved it when they said no lighters. But you could still have several books of matches!
“Stewertess, I keep trying to light my shoe bomb with these matches. And this pesky American keeps blowing them out. Please can I have my lighter back?”
TSA marching orders have been a little ridiculous. In Ontario, California just after 9-11 when National Guardsmen/women were staffing airports, one guardsman came thru the detector. He had laid his M-16 on the conveyor belt and it was returned, but the TSA took away a pocket knife.
*sigh*.
Airport security is a joke. Whenever I’ve been out of the country, hardly anything gets checked out when boarding a plane back to the US. Two years ago, my husband and I flew with a swiss army knife in his briefcase all the way to Washington DC and back without realizing it, (it was in the bottom of his case and he didn’t even know he had it until he got back and was unpacking). That was when you couldn’t even get out of your seat 30 minutes going into or leaving DC. He and his briefcase went through four securuty checks and got through each one without a problem.I think security is really meant to just make us feel safer.
Good post!http://www.chinatraderonline.com/Nail-Clippers/