If you’re flying within the next few days, don’t try to bring that nalgene of Dom Pom on the plane or listen to your iPod. A foiled terrorist plot involving combustible liquids detonated by electronics devices has raised a ban on carrying either aboard. Anything in a bottle is gonna go in the trash. Check everything except your wallets, keys and passports. Expect extended delays, canceled flights and intensive security searches at all airports.
UPDATE: Gadgets are not banned on US flights, just UK. No word whether handheld steam-powered devices are permissible. We presume so, just as long as they’re not in a bottle.
UPDATE: Whodathunkit, the terrorist news caused oil per barrel prices to drop a buck.
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Spridle, thanks for the link.
I guess it is a crime and I was incorrect. It shouldn’t be IMHO, but I understand that it is a crime now and will take other measures to address this.
As for my example, that’s fine. As long as you agree what I purposed isn’t a crime, I will agree with that. I guess user 17556639 should keep quiet about his searches.
“If people weren’t arrested on assumptions, the only people who would get arrested are those who commit crimes directly in front of police.”
Incorrect. The only people who would be arrested are those who commit crimes that the police find out through fact that they did it. If I rob a bank and a cop reviews the tape and sees my face, that’s not assumption. That’s fact and I’ll end up getting arrested. If I’m walking down the street and a cop decided that I “Look Guilty”, he can’t arrest me on the spot without obtaining proof (the ease at which cops can find proof is very easy and not part of the discussion).
Okay bear with me as I try to formulate my thoughts on this situation. I will be flying three times (twice nationally once internationally) within the next four weeks. I am also a New Yorker who was personally affected by September 11th and thought I had lost a friend in the London bombings (luckily they decided to leave early for work). Additionally for the past two elections I vehemently rallied against our current administration and have been aghast with what they are (or are not) doing to protect our safety.
That being said, some of the comments on this post have upset me greatly. I understand that not everyone has the same experiences and sometimes it is hard to understand where each person is coming from. However, folks, sad but true, a threat does exist. People want to kill us. And if it means standing on line for an extra hour or not being able to listen to my ipod, or drink my water on a flight, then fine, as long as I can arrive to my destination alive. It sucks, and that’s that. We can all complain about the way things used to be and how it was so much better and point fingers and blame each other. But honestly, that doesn’t do much. Matto (albeit somewhat childishly) and Andrew W. raised a valid point. There needs to be an overhaul of the TSA. Train people to do their jobs smarter and better. However, there needs to be a compromise. If the FSA relearns how to do their jobs smarter we, as a public, also need to be kept informed (a huge issue with this administration as we all know) and learn to be smarter about things. Don’t complain (as one young lady in a news article did) about not being able to listen to your ipod, read a book. Know not to bring goo-like substances on a plane. Be patient with each other.
Now I am off to pack my hair gel in my checked baggage. Damn if I am going to let someone tell me my big-ass New Yorker hair has to look like crap – then that means the terrorists will win.
“If I rob a bank and a cop reviews the tape and sees my face, that’s not assumption. “
Really? There are plenty of assumptions there – that the person on the tape is actually you, and not someone else who just looks like you, that the tape hasn’t been altered, etc.
I wonder if they are siezing people’s perscription medications and insulin.
Philip –
I’m not a big-city fancy lawyer or nothin’, but I suspect that if the police got a tip that you were planning on blowing up the White House and intercepted you on your way there, you would be in pretty deep trouble, especially if it was clear that you had, in fact, been planning this bombing for some time and there was documentation of this fact.
Or did these would-be bombers get caught in a state of remorse, heading back to their apartments?
Prescription meds (including insulin) are allowed as long as the name on the label is yours. (Please– no threads about how easy it is to print your own labels.)
Phil– Also not a lawyer, but I have to believe if you make a bomb (regardless of strapping it to yourself) you are, at the very least, violating some sort of “possession of explosives” law. If not, then I need to pen a letter to my congressman.