"Scissors? Did someone say scissors would be allowed again?"
Posted on 11/30/2005 5:29:09 AM PST by zeke15
Sharp Objects May Be Allowed on Planes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Airport security screeners are reportedly going to let passengers bring sharp objects on board airplanes again. Today's Washington Post says the Transportation Security Administration plans to announce security changes Friday.
Sources quoted by the paper say the new rules will allow things like scissors in carry-on bags. The reasoning is that such items are no longer regarded as the greatest threat to airline security. Homeland Security Department officials are said to be more concerned about preventing suicide bomb attacks at airports. Officials want screeners to focus more on finding things that can explode rather than things that are sharp.
The Post reports the newly relaxed rules would allow scissors under four inches long tools shorter than seven inches.
TSA spokeswoman says the new initiatives will be positive for both security and customer service.
What are they thinking???!!!
I miss the point of this. Was it a bomb, or a sharp object, that enabled the events of 9/11?
Does this clear the way for Pointed Sticks?
I suggest everyone arm themselves with scissors. I just hope the terrorists don't bring a hole puncher to a scissor fight.
Yes. However, running with the afore mentioned pointed sticks is still a no-no.
Was it a bomb, or a sharp object, that enabled the events of 9/11?
The proximate cause was a sharp object, but the underlying cause was that passengers weren't (and still aren't) allowed to carry licensed firearms on board. Change that rule and nobody will ever again hijack an aircraft with a box cutter.
I suggest everyone arm themselves with scissors.
Would-be Terrorists in Mexican Standoff with Airline Passengers Carrying Rock, Paper
Only if you have already been trained in how to overcome an assailant armed with a banana.
Is this such a dumb idea. The first guy that stands up with a pair of boxcutters and says 'I'm taking over this plane' is getting the bum rush by me and everyone else in coach. Good luck stopping all of us. I'll have my newly decriminalized nail clippers at the ready.
No comment.
It looks like we have learned NOTHING from 9/11. The borders are wide open, and we are relaxing any security measures that were deemed important. How can these measures now be relaxed? Did al-qaeda give up?
I thought the suggestion that the airlines put a 12" metal bar in every seat-back pocket had promise.
Sounds sensible to me. Nowadays, any hijackers with boxcutters would be ripped apart by the other passengers. Nailcutters and other small sharp objects should be allowed in bags.
Then again, sharp objects don't hijack planes, militant muslims do. Neither should be on a U.S. flight.
Dagnabbit. I still won't be able to fly anywhere.
No, that wouldn't happen. If they cut someone's throat there would be mass shock. I just don't get this ruling...its just not making any sense.
Hey, enough with the racial profiling ! (there's a joke in there)
Gee the TSA can't profile passengers to weed out possible terrorists yet shakes down little old ladies in walkers and Congressional Medal of Honor winners and gropes young females and now plans to allow passengers to bring scissors and "small" knives aboard. Why bother screening at all?...its become a joke.
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