Originally Posted by Wally Bird
The original link to the EMS site (which seems to have disappeared BTW) was a first-hand account by two volunteers. They called the items c-rations but since those don't exist we don't know what it was that actually got confisc... voluntarily surrendered. I also got the sense it happened at their departure airport not MSY, unless TSA is now screening deplaning pax there.
When I posted this story originally I linked to the EMS site. Then it appears to have been forwarded over to the comedy magazine "Socialist Worker" which I would not have linked to, given their long term inability to report the truth.
However, unless you are of the impression that they (SW and NYT) are one and the same, the juicy bits of the story have now been picked up by the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/na...gewanted=print
and CNN's Anderson Cooper is now focusing on the story (the blocked bridge part, not the c-rations/MRE part).
P.S. To those who mock the use of the term "C-Ration", may I ask (by means of "type"-ing on my QWERTY keyboard) are there not quite a few terms that have been in reality made anachronisms by more recent developments?
Do you still "dial" a telephone number?
Have you recently bought a CD at the "Record" store?
Do airplanes really have a "Starboard" (from the old Norse for Steering-board) and a "Port" side?
Have you really walked down a "Pier" at Schiphol Airport?
Was the pavement infront of your house finished using a "Steamroller"?
(And for those of you who speak certain other languages, do you "light" your TV set?)
etc. etc. etc.