I'm laughing with you, not at you. I know that they're a little sexually repressed over there, but the lav simply isn't big enough for two of you to play those games...

Mike

Well, perhaps they were concerned about what might go on in the shower rooms on some of those EK flights out of DXB. :D Given DXB has one of the more active "sex tourist" markets on the planet -- more spread out than AMS and more diverse than BKK -- perhaps the security screeners at DXB were a little more than just a little familiar with those games. :D

I've seen FRA security do the same thing with Mach 3 Gillette cartridges.

Those were in your carry-on? :confused:

How can you use them as a weapon? Seriously asking as a question!

Crazy stuff.

Just at T4 (for the moment?). Of course, this can/will change.

Pencils could also be used to write incendiary articles, narratives, novellas, or poetry. Kudos for the screeners at Santo Domingo for preventing another catastrophe!

And an ethernet cable! Phew! I'm so glad they stopped that terrorist act before it got underway. The cable could connect a computer to the internet, you could log on to a web site, purchase sharp objects, and have them delivered to you.

A flight attendant carrying perfume samples? They don't have 911 in England, but I hope someone called. That flight attendant could have sickened, even incapacitated those passengers with allergies or "multiple chemical sensitivity."

Big pat on the back for screeners everywhere. It feels good to save lives!

Well let's think about this using "security logic." It's not as far fetched as you think. :D

Gillette makes a razor called the Mach 3.

Mach 3 is a speed capable of being achieved only on military planes.

Military planes are/have weapons.

Therefore, by the transitive property, the Gillette Mach 3 Razor = Mach 3 = Military Planes = Weapon. Shorten that down, you have Mach 3 Razor = Weapon. Weapon = prohibited so therefore, the Mach 3 must be prohibited.

You now have your reason. Ta-Da! :D

Don't worry. They don't have 999 (or 112) in the US. ;) Somehow we survive.

If you follow this logic then any item could be used a weapon, e.g. you could hit someone on the head with your laptop etc. Does not mean that laptops should be excluded rom carry on.

Some people can kill with their bare hands. From now on, no hands will be allowed on flights. This will also solve the problem of too much carry-on luggage. :rolleyes:

Don't forget lead poisoning!*

* yes...I know there's no lead in pencils anymore :)

Shhhh! Don't give them any ideas!:p

Wow, now I think that CDG was actually decent compared to some of these other nightmarish scenarios.

112 is global, including the USA