{"id":11670,"date":"2007-07-22T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/22\/because-you-know-its-not-like-fluids-designed-to-ignite-are-a-danger-or-something.html"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:16:46","slug":"because_you_know_its_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/because_you_know_its_not.html","title":{"rendered":"Because, you know — it’s not like fluids designed<\/i> to ignite are a danger or something …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, here’s a news flash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Screeners at U.S. airports will stop confiscating common cigarette lighters because authorities now consider them a distraction from efforts to find bombs and other threats, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n

[…] Lighters are the most confiscated item at airport security checkpoints — about 22,000 per day, the Homeland Security Department’s Transportation Security Administration said. The number has gone as high as 35,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The lighter ban went into effect after Richard Reid tried to light off a “shoe bomb” on a plane.  Of course, he used matches — which were never banned <\/em>— but security theater demanded that lighters be confiscated, too.<\/p>\n

Ironically, by possibly reducing or delaying smoking, the lighter ban probably saved more lives than the whole post-9\/11 screening process.<\/p>\n

No word yet on whether lighters will have to be carried in your little transparent zip-lock bag with the rest of your Dangerous Liquids.  I’m not sure how they’ll justify visual inspection of tiny shampoos if lighters (full of, you know, known <\/em>flammable liquids) pass unseen.<\/p>\n

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(via Ginny<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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