Airport Stupidity

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Airport Stupidity

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It's not about security any more, it's all about having power and authority to control people. Going through the airport security, item one, you cannot take is your own water through,, but you can buy their water at a inflated price. Twice now, I have frozen a bottle of water and wrapped it in tinfoil to keep it cold on a long flight and it has not been detected or taken off me. Is it cause ice is not water or is it because of the tinfoil wrapping ?
You are asked to take your shoes off when going through the security inspection, but this appears to be only for some people.
The next item which is very dangerous to take on a plane is your belt holding up your pants. Much more dangerous than the webbing on my backpack which is stronger and longer. Six months ago a German guy with a 62 inch beer belly was asked to take off his belt and then he purposely let his pants drop to the floor. As he waddled forward, they asked him to lift his pants up and he made several attempts at bending over to reach them , shouting holly shizen houtzen or something. Not a pretty sight as I was only a few metres behind him. Interesting to note, I have never seen them ask a female to take her belt off
The next most dangerous item I have had taken off me is a pair of nail clippers, much more dangerous than a pen. ?

The latest ''most dangerous'' item is rolls of two inch wide packaging tape.,,, I bought a MP3 player and a power pack battery to send to a friend in Malaysia and thought rather than send from Cambodia, I would post it when I got to KL airport. I thought they may want to check the parcel [ battery ]' so I took 3 rolls of tape with me so I could package it later.
The scanner at the PP airport picked up the tape and I opened my backpack to show them. ,,, They removed ONE roll , and then waved me through. I hope they do a more efficient job when terrorist go through with 3 knives or 3 bombs.

When going through security and boarding at the Australian side ,, I saw a guy put a cigarette lighter in the tray along side his other items , I asked the security guy, is that item ok ,,, Answer yes ??

Several years ago I bought a '' waffle maker '' the type you put over a fire . As it was too long I unscrewed the steel handles [ which were quarter inch steel rod ] , making the waffle maker about six inches shorter and it fitted into my bag ok. I was told I could not take the handles, and I asked for a supervisor for a second opinion. While waiting I screwed the handles back into the waffle maker , and guess what. The item was quite safe. I unscrewed them later so the would fit back in my bag.
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You are right Duncan. I've often wondered how long it would be before they decide that laptop batteries, laptop chargers and cables, mouse cables, laptop bag straps, etc., etc., etc., would be classified as potential lethal weapons.

And don't forget shoe laces, bra straps, . . . . .
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its a fucked up world we now live in, the terrorist attacks just make people more paranoid, and the more paranoid we are, the more control we hand over to the "governments" of the world, looks like the only sane place is to retreat into your own world.

looks like the terrorists have succeeded after all.
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Duncan wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:54 am It's not about security any more, it's all about having power and authority to control people. Going through the airport security, item one, you cannot take is your own water through,, but you can buy their water at a inflated price. Twice now, I have frozen a bottle of water and wrapped it in tinfoil to keep it cold on a long flight and it has not been detected or taken off me. Is it cause ice is not water or is it because of the tinfoil wrapping ?
It's because it's not in liquid form so it's ok to take through security. I know crazy :D
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Instead of getting agitated, why not just accept & go along with it ?

Makes life much easier :)
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see the news item about the gang of coke traffickers working for the tsa yesterday?
shifting some serious weight
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jaynewcastle wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:42 am Instead of getting agitated, why not just accept & go along with it ?

Makes life much easier :)


That's what they said to the Jew's in Germany.
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Instead of getting agitated, why not just accept & go along with it ? Makes life much easier :)
[b]That's what they said to the Jew's in Germany.[/b]

Talk about hy-fukin-perboly!

I do about 6 round trip flights a year. Most are international. I've never had a minute's worth of hassle with security guys in the US, Asia or Mexico. I am far from a paranoid authoritarian cop-lover. But I very much respect what they do. And they are not cops. They are ordinary blue collar guys charged with passing thousands through their station every shift and interacting briefly with each one - not a walk in the park.

If I fly at Christmastime, I generally bring a poinsettia plant to the guys at security, much to their surprise,

My druthers are such that I do not want an upper class Nigerian kid lighting his balls on fire in the effort to bring the plane down to glorify his chosen deity nor a 'convert' from Britland gracing us with a bomb in his shoe for the same reason. I short, I like life. I understand that a certain small degree of choppiness and glitchy unreason are inevitable in any very large system. The whole history of inconvenience in total that I have experienced is far less inconvenient than walking 4 blocks in PP at 4pm.
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underling above was a computer error
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Duncan wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:41 am
jaynewcastle wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:42 am Instead of getting agitated, why not just accept & go along with it ?

Makes life much easier :)


That's what they said to the Jew's in Germany.
That has to be one of the most stupid comments of the week. Taking off your belt hardly ranks with being sent to die, does it.

I look at it from the point of view that they are trying to prevent people from blowing us up. I fly a fair bit (8 flights in the next four days) and I have seen that getting all agitated will not get you anywhere; these security guards have seen it all. I just play it cool and go with the flow.

What annoys me is the inconsistency: one airport asks you to remove the laptop, the next one (in the same region) doesn't. Heck, even within Vietnam there are different rules....
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