Whither, mother wit?

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Hear ye all! A female starts feeling claustrophobic at the end of a
long trans-Atlantic flight, starts to behave irritably and the next
thing we hear the 777 landing at Boston accompanied by fighter
aircraft. She apparently had with her a bottle of vaseline, matches and
a screwdriver, which can create a highly explosive device. Ok I made up
the final bit but don't be surprised if the line is parrotted by
authorities.

Commonsense has suddenly become very unattractive for law enforcement
agencies as flying has for common passengers, with terror threats
matched only by even more extreme knee-jerk reactions from authorities.

My wife and sons are due to fly out in just over a week from India on a
3-hour flight and I'm sure they won't even let her carry along a bottle
of milk or water for my 3-year old. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ramapriya


I have heard here in Australia, that baby formula and milk is allowed,
provided the carer or parent drinks a portion in from of the security
personnel.
Not sure how true it is though.
Crash Lander

and spend ENORMOUS amounts of
money on ineffective security measures.

That is ultimately how we beat Russia. It's our own trick and we don't
know it from the business end.

Jose
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"Crash Lander" wrote
I have heard here in Australia, that baby formula and milk is allowed,
provided the carer or parent drinks a portion in [front] of the security
personnel. Not sure how true it is though.

This very effectively prevents terrorist A from carrying on board deadly
poisonous (but slow acting) and highly explosive component A and terrorist B
from doing the same with similar component B. After all, who would drink a
deadly poison?

I have heard here in Australia, that baby formula and milk is allowed,
provided the carer or parent drinks a portion in [front] of the security
personnel. Not sure how true it is though.

This very effectively prevents terrorist A from carrying on board deadly
poisonous (but slow acting) and highly explosive component A and terrorist B
from doing the same with similar component B. After all, who would drink a
deadly poison?

I presume this is in jest, though I suspect not all readers here would
figure it out. Even if the poison were fast acting, it is quite easy to
design a bottle that dispenses one thing while showing another.

For years I carried a luggable computer. I didn't have a laptop, but
they were not uncommon. They wanted me to turn it on. It took five
minutes to boot up; once they saw the C prompt they were happy. I could
have carried a bomb =and= a laptop inside the luggable, it would have
booted fine from the laptop, and the bomb would have been quite effective.

I suppose nowadays I'd have to program the laptop to go off in the cargo
hold. I'd need some long-lasting batteries - now who makes them for
laptops?

Jose
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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Jon Woellhaf wrote:
"Crash Lander" wrote
I have heard here in Australia, that baby formula and milk is allowed,
provided the carer or parent drinks a portion in [front] of the security
personnel. Not sure how true it is though.

This very effectively prevents terrorist A from carrying on board deadly poisonous (but slow
acting) and highly explosive component A and terrorist B from doing the same with similar
component B. After all, who would drink a deadly poison?

Good one )

Ramapriya

Jose wrote:

For years I carried a luggable computer. I didn't have a laptop, but
they were not uncommon. They wanted me to turn it on. It took five
minutes to boot up; once they saw the C prompt they were happy. I could
have carried a bomb =and= a laptop inside the luggable, it would have
booted fine from the laptop, and the bomb would have been quite effective.


You needn't have tried anything at all if only you had a proper Dell
laptop with a Sony battery

Ramapriya

On 16 Aug 2006 08:27:14 -0700, wrote:
My wife and sons are due to fly out in just over a week from India on a
3-hour flight and I'm sure they won't even let her carry along a bottle
of milk or water for my 3-year old. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well, you could ship them via a boat and shipping container... Use one
of the refrigerated ones and keep it at around 75F for comfort... Fix
it up real nice so it's basically a 40 ft RV... With all the TSA
delays at the airports these days, 'ell, it *might* be faster...

"Jose" wrote in message
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and spend ENORMOUS amounts of money on ineffective security measures.

That is ultimately how we beat Russia. It's our own trick and we don't
know it from the business end.

We will, soon enough.

On 2006-08-16 21:22, GeorgeC wrote:
I hear on the news last night, that they have relaxed the rules in the USA. You
can now carry on baby formula and up to 4 ounces of liquid medicine.


Now, how much is 4 ounces in D-cups again?