Scissors Found in Conn. Airport

Drudge ^

[StriperSniper]

I had a similar thought about all the nuke in NYC talk. The panic caused could be more deadly than the bomb.

[Mad Dawgg]

"We can't run around shrieking "the sky is falling" over a pair of scissors."

Now you have done IT! Now Terrorists will be RUNNING with Scissors in airports, shutting down flights for Hours!

Please Refrain from posting Obvious Terro Tactics that our Enemies could use against us!

[Mad Dawgg]

(/SARCASM)

Forgot to Close Tags! Sorry

[PrivateIdaho]

THANK GOD they weren't the dreaded nail clippers!!

Thank God nobody was seen running with scissors.

[PrivateIdaho]

Dang, you beat me to the horrifying "running with scissors" scenario.

[Constitution Day]

Now you have done IT! Now Terrorists will be RUNNING with Scissors in airports, shutting down flights for Hours!

Well, we learned as children that Scissors beat Paper and Rock beats Scissors.
We can just give the National Guard a bag of rocks to go along with their unloaded M-16's and we'll be fine!

[NittanyLion]

This sounds like a passenger got through the security gate with the scissors and then dumped them in the trash.

Probably because they feared arrest if they turned the scissors in voluntarily (and not without good reason, I might add). I'd dump them anonymously as well, rather than go through the hassle of an interrogation over why I brought such a dangerous item through security.

[UnsinkableMollyBrown]

Doesn't anyone think that someone slipped those scissors through screening as a test? I'd be worried.

[NittanyLion]

ROFL.

[RoughDobermann]

You sure Drudge didnt find this on The Onion?

Click the link above.

[Focault's Pendulum]

This is getting silly...

I think we should take this seriously people. Suppose these scissors got past the highly trained screeners. One could posit that they could then be used to cut off the front of one's sneakers, thus facilitating the lighting of toe jam.

[rdww]

Will someone PLEASE tell me this is from The Onion.

[Digger]

The dumbing down of America. This is laughable unless you fly these "safe" skies. Are you about poised to stand in line at the supermarket & be searched for buying butter? I think the sheeple are - if they put up with this flying crapola.

[E Rocc]

Well, we learned as children that Scissors beat Paper and Rock beats Scissors. We can just give the National Guard a bag of rocks to go along with their unloaded M-16's and we'll be fine!

But then since paper wraps rock if they find paper towels in the garbage they will shut the place down.

-Eric

[freeeee]

Some 600 passengers aboard eight flights that had taken off earlier were screened again when they reached their destinations

Now, when you board a plane, you are consenting to a search in order to gain the owners permission to enter their aircraft. No search, no boarding. (The 4th Amendment implications of Federal officials doing the searching/screening is another story, but I won't address that here.)

Screening people leaving an aircraft is a whole other story:

Where is the consent?
Are passengers asked to consent to these additional departure searches?
Are the passengers being detained before the departure search?
If so, by who?
Would a passenger who refuses to be searched upon departure be detained?
If they are detained, who will detain them, the airline?
Does the airline have legal authority to forcefully detain an individual for such a reason?
If so, where would the airline derive such police powers?
If the police detain the individual against their will for refusing a departure search, where is the probable cause needed to satisfy the 4th Amendment?

I highly doubt any of these questions will ever be answered, or 4th Amendment rights respected.

Yet another reason, as if I needed one, to refrain from paying good money to be treated like a subject of some communist regime.

[Amore]

Ha! (and thanks for reminding me, I just sent the Meaney article on to my brother who's a fan, and also sent him a copy of a couple of the clever responses people like you made.)