Talk about inconveneince -- did you see the pictures that went with the snooze stories about this? They left the plane on the RUNWAY and used stairs to access it. How many other flights were inconvenienced??? At the same time...

I'll smuggle water on board without any guilt.

No matter WHAT, this proves that you can't stop all 'illegal' items from being brought onto planes...

So when is the Michael Chertoff and Kip Hawley back patting, self-congratulatory press conference on how they stopped globalthermalnuclear war with this incident supposed to be scheduled?

Now I can't be the only one who sees the irony in your signature line, can I?

Even if she had a note about Al-Qaeda, what does it matter. It's not like that note would likely have ever been found if she was a terrorist, which she clearly must not have been except to the people sitting next to her and/or the FA.

The other story is that she was claustrophobic and went batty due to encroachment into her "space".

Good for you! :rolleyes: I just hope someone really gives it to you when your plane is diverted because you can't handle following the rules.

I believe it was either KL or LH that said if a PAX is caught with stuff, the plane will be diverted and the cost will be assessed to the PAX. I hope this happens to you and the rest of the morons on here who want to be all Thoreau-like.

This actually sounds like what some posters here have threatened to do as an act of civil disobediance.

(crossing fingers!) PLEASE let there be an FT'er on this flight!

Don't you love how the baggage handlers toss the suitcases onto the tarmac like they're sacks of grain? Don't you think if there was the least bit chance of there being a bomb inside the suitcase, they'd treat them a little more gingerly?

You know this for a fact ? All I've seen is a quote from an unidentified "official" from an unnamed agency. Remember how "officials" immediately determined that guy in Houston with worn-out shoes and an alarm radio was a terrist ? I'll wait, and make a small wager that she actually had none of the above.

Yeah, the TSA's current story.

It's being carried on EuroNews in Brussels... just the pictures, with no sound. They probably expect viewers to make their own jokes about the embarrassment that has become the now commonplace over-reaction by the US re: terrorism.

I'm all for thoroughness, but come on - does Vaseline and a screwdriver warrant shutting down a RUNWAY and then having baggage handlers (clearly not concerned about any bomb potential) lining up luggage ON THE RUNWAY for inspection? Doesn't anyone at BOS think that MAYBE they could have done this ANYWHERE ELSE??

Rediculous.

- T

At the end of the day, who cares?

None of the items the woman allegedly had could be used to hijack or destroy an aircraft (in a reasonable amount of time. I suppose given a month, the interior of the aircraft might be pretty trashed with the screwdriver, but still flight-worthy).

We have really and truly lost our collective minds if we think that this stupid over-reaction to this woman's possessions made anyone safer. I think that people who do think that this diversion contributed to safety should check themselves into a sanatorium, beginning with those on her flight who ratted her out.

Yes, that's the CNN ticker.

"AP - TSA denies woman had vaseline, screwdriver, matches, notes"