Originally Posted by etch5895
Wally Bird, I'd have to break out the Poor Man's James Bond and see if there are any kind of explosives that can be made in that manner. I know that Bleach can be mixed with other substances for some pretty nasty gaseous effects; I'm not sure about explosives.
I didn't express myself clearly enough. My point wasn't that they might be seeing whether they
could smuggle liquids aboard, but that having possibly done so why on earth would they then advertise the fact to everyone on board ? Which is what precipitated a couple of the 'incidents'. Seems a strange sort of probe.