Originally Posted by
WChou
Because they are securely delivered and pass through a comprehensive screening process to ensure they have not been tampered with whereas the average traveler cannot be trusted to do the same. BWAHAHAHA!!!!
Yea right. Here's a pic I snapped a while back and forgot I had taken. Looks like drinks delivered to the sterile go straight into the xray machine and the hand truck went right by the WTMD. As many here have already asked, so if x-raying the bottles is good enough, why can't this be done to passenger liquids? What's stopping an accomplice on the other side from collaborating with delivery people? Last time I checked, a handtruck is a series of tubes (no Ted Stevens jokes please). A series of hollow tube that can be stuffed full of all sorts of nasty things.
I feel so much safer knowing my per segment security fees have been put to good use.
Good questions, especially the one about the tubular frame for the two-wheeled dolly considering the fact that during the Viet Nam war, bicycles used for bombing purposes had similar tubes filled with explosives. Funny that TSA deems shoes as a potential bomb/contraband smuggling device, but a dolly with substantially more storage space in the frame gets ignored by the same people who tell the rest of us that they are the spear point for air travel security.