Thanks, Mr. Obvious!
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#17
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No more so than you waste here dude. Its all a waste of time, at least until they get to the checkpoint. Then its a learning experience.
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Second: Each time a replica or the real thing, inert or not, is found at the checkpoint it has a significant effect. They close the checkpoint. 15 minutes to several hours, depending. This has an effect on all the passengers who would like to get through the checkpoint, and of course the schedules of the affected aircraft, airlines, and entire airports down the line who were expecting things to run smoothly throughout the country. Its called a “ripple affect”, and tends to hose things up far and wide. Sometimes there is no ripple affect, but that’s pretty rare.
SO, ifs not just one or two people that choose to do something rather stupid, but entire airports and regions. A significant portion of that 2 million you write about.
#21
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More like U//FOUO reports generated by our intelligence office. Sometimes we see incidents involving lots of things, including ones that get in the news and ones that don't.
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#23
Join Date: Apr 2009
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The important message from Bob's post is that TSA's inability to identify non-weapons makes our air transport system vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
Imagine what a "terrorist" could do with $10,000 worth of cheap tickets and candy grenades. In the words of TSORon:
"Each time a replica or the real thing, inert or not, is found at the checkpoint it has a significant effect. They close the checkpoint. 15 minutes to several hours, depending. This has an effect on all the passengers who would like to get through the checkpoint, and of course the schedules of the affected aircraft, airlines, and entire airports down the line who were expecting things to run smoothly throughout the country. Its called a “ripple affect”, and tends to hose things up far and wide. Sometimes there is no ripple affect, but that’s pretty rare.
SO, ifs not just one or two people that choose to do something rather stupid, but entire airports and regions. A significant portion of that 2 million you write about."
Imagine what a "terrorist" could do with $10,000 worth of cheap tickets and candy grenades. In the words of TSORon:
"Each time a replica or the real thing, inert or not, is found at the checkpoint it has a significant effect. They close the checkpoint. 15 minutes to several hours, depending. This has an effect on all the passengers who would like to get through the checkpoint, and of course the schedules of the affected aircraft, airlines, and entire airports down the line who were expecting things to run smoothly throughout the country. Its called a “ripple affect”, and tends to hose things up far and wide. Sometimes there is no ripple affect, but that’s pretty rare.
SO, ifs not just one or two people that choose to do something rather stupid, but entire airports and regions. A significant portion of that 2 million you write about."
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I would take with a huge grain of salt information disseminated by the TSA's "intelligence" office.
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So whaddya s'pose would happen if I stuck one of these on my luggage?
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Just to clarify: the article was in response to inert grenades and novelty items (i.e. "take a number" with the number attached to the safety pin of a fragmentation grenade). Should be obvious that inert grenades and/or novelty items would not be permitted as carry-on luggage for the same reason why a realistic replica of a pistol or other firearm would not be allowed. As for checked baggage, it is virtually impossible to determine by x-ray alone whether or not a grenade is inert or a replica, even if it's attached to a piece of wood and made to look like a novelty item.
While this may be obvious to a lot of us, some people need this explained to them.
While this may be obvious to a lot of us, some people need this explained to them.
When God was handing out the brains, they must have been given the "refurbished" ones