While my annoyance at the TSA and its Security Theater at airports know no bounds … there are folks out there trying to carry stuff onto planes that I'd rather they didn't, and I'm glad someone's catching them. Now if they could just do so in a manner that wasn't quite so irksome. #ddtb
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Tear Gas on a plane – I can't even imagine. I wonder if the cockpit is able to be sealed off from tear gas.
Still irks me that they regard a pocketknife as a hijack risk. Once the determination is made not to surrender control of the plane for any reason, not even the fearsome box cutter is a hijack risk. At worst, you could harm one person before someone behind you delivered a solid kick to the derriere, and then you would be set upon by ten pissed-off passengers at once. Possibly more, but due to cramped quarters they'd have to take turns beating the crap out of you.
Agreed. There is no way a small knife of any kind could be used anymore. Hell, what good would a gun do nowadays? Except maybe to rob some people.
As long as they make their escape while the plane is still in flight that'd be fine. Just give me a couple minutes to get their parachute ready for them. As a gesture of goodwill…
With all the bad press that TSA gets, this gives some balance.
I'll betcha I could threaten the same level of bodily harm with a ball point pen … or the broken edge of a plastic restaurant knife. And I'll betcha I'd be overwhelmed and beaten anyway if it looked like I was going to actually try and take over the plane.
And that's one reason I posted it, +Jim Tatsuda — for all that there's a lot of useless security theater that the TSA does, and that they do things in a way seemingly calculated to cause people problems, there are some reasons to try and review what people are trying to bring on board.