Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
Maybe the guy has a shiny shoe fetish and maybe it really was just an oversized bottle of shoe polish. But, it could just as easily be something else not so harmless that might have been detected by examination.
Yes, we have heard the mantra before about the liquids ban and why it is necessary and, yet, there is nothing nearly conclusive showing that someone can bring a plane down with some liquid in a small bottle.
Shoe polish is usually dark colored, what if the contents of the bottle weren't the right color and that could have been detected by visual examination?
Doubtful. The TSOs can't even distinguish water by color, scent and watching the traveler drink it right in front of them. If they can't determine the non-threatening nature of water when demonstrated right in front of them, I seriously doubt they will know what to make of an off-colored liquid in a bottle of shoe polish.
I'm in the medical field and have been reading lately about some of the possible biological weapons; using one of those in a shoe polish sized bottle, you could easily kill off most of the pax on a large plane.
Um, why bother trying to get on the plane and dealing with security? A terrorist could simply walking into the LAS baggage claim area on a Friday night around 8 PM with his shoe polish bottle filled with a biological weapon and wipe out a heck of a lot more people than those on a WN flight.