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- weirdralph, on 10/10/2007, -3/+88I'm bloody sick and tired of worthless feel-good rules like "no Swiss Army knives" anyway. Props to the TSA for grabbing that pudding though. You never know when someone might decide to reenact the "I'm a zit!" scene from Animal House.
- TKn00b, on 10/10/2007, -0/+48"Swiss Army Knife with a 4" locking blade"
Holy hell - Hermitwise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+44I'm sorry but it is just not cool to take someone's pudding.
- devjunkie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39It's a fact that the TSA is just a large group of peons who have NO CLUE what to look for.
Sure, they'll bitch at you if you have a laptop bag full of wires and funky devices that are actually legit, but you COULD split up elements for a bomb and they wouldn't bat an eye.
The whole security system is a joke and it's more or less a major inconvenience for paying customers. I mean, you can't even take ***** WATER on a plane. Give me a break.
I don't think they realize that the people who did 9/11 were *lucky* to pull it off, mainly because it hadn't been seen or done before.
The next attack, guaranteed, we won't see it coming. Instead, the TSA will probably evolve their rules and make things even MORE inconvenient. Hey, maybe we won't have to pack luggage anymore - instead we just bring our clothes to them and they do it all for us. I wouldn't put it past 'em..
This system reminds me of a terrible Starcraft player: you unleash an aerial assault on them and they spend the next half of the game building nothing but anti-air units... and are helpless when you switch up strategies and raid their base with ground units instead. - DrToddMD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38Ladies and Gentleman....Exibit A....Hunts Pudding!
TERRORIST! - 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28Don't ***** with the Pudding Police
- DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27TSA - Keeping you safe from pudding smuggling terrorists.
Probably Hunt's Raspberry Hezbollah pudding. Other popular flavors include Vanilla Jihad, Chocolate Death to America and Al-Qaeda Pecan.
Ya know, the Arabian horse guy is looking more competent all the time. - manogamez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25I feel so safe.
- Razster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25I see you've played knifey Spoony before.
- Nightfall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22I went through airport security a few months ago. In my carry-on, I had a bottle of contact eye solution. They wouldn't let me take it on board. I was miffed cause it was a brand new bottle practically, but I let them take it. After I got through, I stopped to put my shoes on and realized I had a pair of scissors in another pocket of the same carry-on. These were nice heavy duty scissors with sharp ends and about 3 inch blades.
Confiscate the contact eye solution but NOT the scissors? - tical2756, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23That's not a knife. That's a spoon.
- zombiedepot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22He obviously didn't finish his meat.
- rebopper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Considering the 911 hijackers used box-cutters, a 4" swiss army knife is a step up. Now if only Crocodile Dundee was around. "You call that a knife? THIS is a knife!"
- Gryffydd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16In July of 2001 I flew across the US, a total of 4 flights while carrying this: http://www.gerbergear.com/product.php?model=1611
My brother was carrying one of these: http://sogknives.com/store/PE14.html
We both just plopped them into their bowls along with our keys and change and such. They glanced in the bowl and handed our stuff back to us. Not a second look. Man, I miss the old days... - DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16"Our safety is being entrusted by a bunch of highschool dropout nitwits."
Well, we trusted the country to a bunch of draft dodging college dropout nitwits. Seems only fair we give the high school dropout nitwits responsible a government job, too. - gridbread, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15THAT CRAZY SON OF A BITCH HAS TAPIOCA!
GET HIM! - Hosalabad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Wait, you can get a locking blade on a swiss army knife now? That's awesome.
- doctechnical, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14obMontyPython:
"Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Pudding not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of Hunts Pudding Snacks, don't come crying to me!"
[to paraphrase]
http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/banana.html - Stormflux, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14The Pudding thing is a holdover from a few years back when there was a "liquid bomb" plot. The whole thing was scientifically infeasible and never would have exploded.
- unfanderful, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13A few weeks back, I flew from DC to Las Vegas. When it was time to board, I chugged my water instead of throwing it away like I was told to do. Flyflyfly. . . When i got to the hotel, I noticed a pair of clipping scissors I'd left in the bottom of my carry-on backpack. Then I noticed my four-inch lockblade. Go TSA. Huzzah.
- quaxon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11they confinscated a potato 2 wires, 2 toothpicks and some toothpaste from me a while ago, maybe they knew something i didnt?
- BrokenBokken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11The TSA guy was probably just hungry. Give him a (lunch) break!
- TheHydrogens, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Haha.... Dugg for relating national security and 9/11 to Starcraft Strategy.... al-Queda is the Zerg, right?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11First rule about usenet, er I mean the pudding trick, is don't talk about the pudding trick. ;)
- mikelieman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11On the positive side, the TSA Goon got himself a free pudding cup!
- staender, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Don't laugh, one time I saw MacGyver destroy an entire terrorist boot camp using mustard, a lint brush, and two dingy quarters. Can't do that with a lousy 4" locking knife can you!?!
- scottykempf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9First there was the Shoe Bomber, now we will have.....THE PUDDING BOMBER!!!!!!!!
- razrielle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"bomb has been defused"
- gwss76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I just traveled last week and both times in my round-trip flight I has a TSA agent that was careless. I have metal in my body from when I was injured and so I am used to setting off metal detectors so this isn't an issue for me. What is an issue is the fact that when I am searched the TSA agents don't seem to pick up the metal in my body with their wands. I actually had to pull the wand out of the agents hand and show him where on my body the metal was located because he didn't come across it. When I questioned the guys training he got defensive and said sometimes it doesn't work right--that was the departure trip. The second incident was on my return. I was getting ready to step thru the metal detector standing two inches with my toe inside and the machine went off. The agent (a 19 yr old with no enthusiasm or care for the responsibility of his position) was looking at his feet when the detector when off. He didn't notice and waved me thru. I didn't say anything because I was just stunned. I want to write a letter to someone but I am not sure what good it will do. Our safety is being entrusted by a bunch of highschool dropout nitwits.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8the proof is in the pudding
- doctechnical, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6"Hey, maybe we won't have to pack luggage anymore - instead we just bring our clothes to them and they do it all for us. I wouldn't put it past 'em.."
What clothes? We'll be flying naked soon enough, strapped into the seat.
Which some people I know would probably pay extra for... - kablaaamo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I had an APPLE taken from me once when I was going through security. Seriously. Tell me what harm I could do with an apple. The guards are definitely just hungry.
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6It also reminds me of the pre-9/11 security checks the FAA ran once a year.
The would routinely manage to smuggle disassembled bombs, SMGs and other tools of the trade on board airplanes, but were caught 10/10 when trying to get a knife on board.
The problem is the same now as it was then: the security guards get into their heads to look for one or two things, and are not trained well enough to identify what they *really* need to be looking for. - chukd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6TSA was a joint action of Democrats and Republicans. It was one of those knee jerk reactions that people have to make themself feel better. They didn't care what the results would be, sort of like the Patriot Act.
- ryanyogan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You have no idea what you are spewing about do you?
The seat cushion is a flotation device, can and has been used, not for a 6,000 - 10,000 FPM dive but ditching in water is possible and that my friend will get you to the surface of the water.
The life vest, do you need an explination for thoes too?
In the flight deck you can hear a cell phone in your pocket much like you hear your phone through your computer speakers before it rings if they aren't magnetically shielded speakers. VHF (Very High Frequency) operates in a somewhat similar fashion to your cell phone, when your cell is on and you're at 10,000ASL the cell will try and pull signals upwards (which it isn't meant to do) and could cause interfernece. Is it going to mess with navigation instruments? Most likely not, however it can cause interference with communications at cricitcal times. This has nothing to do with the TSA, it is the FAA and regardless of your opinion they have very intelligent engineers as does Boeing and Airbus.... But your an internet professor so you must know more than highly educated engineers right?
The oxygen masks?!?! Come one buddy please don't tell me your serious? I want you to google the word "Hypoxia," in a sudden decompression at 36,000 feet you don't have much time before you lose motor skills, off the top of my head its 8 - 15 seconds (?correct me if i'm wrong). No you cannot hold your breath, this is a life saving device. Even a pack failure can cause the plane to lose breathable oxygen within minutes. The captain can either A) put the plane into a dive that you will never forget for the rest of your life until he reaches below 14,000 ft, or the masks can drop, you can breathe and the crew can fly to a safe alititude in a more feasable descent.
Don't ***** words out your mouth just to spew em, do a litle reseach, there is no need to spread fear into people for no reason. - ProvidenceCrow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6@rebopper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMVUKNkny3E
- doctechnical, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And don't forget the favorite chocolate treat of the Jihad: The Allah-Ak-Bar.
- shadowspawn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Terrorists win.
- gotamd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7TSA agents need pudding too. I mean, what are they going to do with a knife? Pudding, on the other hand, is tasty.
- zombiedepot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nope. It's still Korea.
- zombiedepot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Explosive pudding, what will the terrorists think up next?
- DanaG, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"and are helpless when you switch up strategies and raid their base with ground units instead."
Interesting analogy considering you could ride an elephant leading a Mariachi Band across our border with Mexico ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XB1YJeQjE ). - Subterfug, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Do I need to TELL YOU what you can do with sticky fingers?
- deathweaver108, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I was on a flight home from London to NY. I had been traveling and had a box of matches I got at a hotel in Ethiopia. When they found it they wanted to take it from me. I asked them if I could just empty the box and keep it because it was really just for the memories. So they took the matches out and looked around for a place to get rid of them. There was no trash can or anything else they would use. So they just gave them back to be and said "have a nice day"
- BossKey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Let me guess...this is the episode where Homer gets a job with the TSA.
"...camera...laptop...pudding...knife............mmm, pudding..." - TheCheeks, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4now their minds are set on finding "questionable" liquids, thus taking the attention away from FREAKING KNIVES
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4ffs! teams!
- elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Maybe you're MacGyver?
- Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That's actually similar to a trick to use with auditors. Leave a bunch of little thing for them to find, so they can say they found something, and they'll likely stop digging any deeper - thereby missing the big pain in the ass stuff.
- duggtodeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Counter-Terrorists Win!
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