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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 9:21 am
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bollar
 
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Originally Posted by JakiChan
As moronic as the Department of Fatherland Security is, I gotta say, the chick had a screwdriver (which I think is prohibited), Vasaline (which is prohibited) and a note about al-Qaida. The story here isn't overreaction it's how all these prohibitions only inconvience law-abiding pax. She got all this crap on board how?
Depending on the volume/size, getting that stuff on board is trivial for a woman. If she had a tub of Vaseline and a big screwdriver, that's one thing. If she had a .25 oz lip tube of the stuff and an eyeglass screwdriver, that's another.
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