Originally Posted by
Crazyace718
I once asked a woman to surrender her water bottle because liquids, gels, creams, and lotions were prohibited. She angrily asked me why her water was not allowed. I told her that water is a liquid. She looked me square in the eye and said "this is water not a liquid". I shook my head apologized then walked away. I'm always surprised how open the rule can be to interpretation.
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On average, 2x/week, I run across an organization, (~45,000 employees I believe) where the leadershio was so paranoid about a group of inept amateur terrorists that they disposed of (or never actually understood) all recent knowledge of chemistry and physics, and concluded that they could prevent all future on-board explosives by keeping all liquids brought on the plane (by passengers only) below an arbitrary amount. All 45,000 employees enforce this junk dogma with minimal exceptions, at significant expense to the travelling public.
The original amateur terrorists were acquitted of most charges and all charges involving aircraft, but the delusionary policy continues in the face of clear scientific and logical evidence that preventing explosives on planes by micromanaging an irrelevant factor, one of the states of matter, is misguided and counterproductive.
I'm always disgusted by how easily and widely lies and deception can spread throughout a government organization and then be used to punish and harm the very public that funds and should be able to influence and manage that organization.