# Best comment on airline security? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274 "2014-07-16T14:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/1 "2014-07-16T14:39:15Z")
On my Facebook page, a friend posted a message, a photo of an airplane passenger with this message overprinted: …AIRPLANES HAVE NOW BANNED TWEEZERS. PERSONALLY I THINK ANYONE WHO CAN HIJACK A PLANE WITH TWEEZERS DESERVES THE PLANE. … How about that? ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/2 "2014-07-16T14:43:45Z")
Yeah. How about it? :rolleyes: Please, tell us more about your Facebook friends’ posts. Any FarmVille updates? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/3 "2014-07-16T14:51:17Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > AIRPLANES HAVE NOW BANNED TWEEZERS. Cite plz. kthxbai ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/4 "2014-07-16T14:55:54Z")
I was flying a month or so ago and they confiscated a poor old lady’s knitting needles!! They were afraid she’d get on the plane and knit an Afghan. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/5 "2014-07-16T15:05:28Z")
Great, now the planes themselves are banning things. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/6 "2014-07-16T15:10:35Z")
A major terror ogranization would never attempt such a brash move as hijacking a plance with tweezers… This must be the work of a splinter group. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/7 "2014-07-16T15:16:03Z")
Sicks Ate, Ethilrist, you gave me some good laughs yourselves. Thanks! … Knit an Afghan. … or even weave damask! After all, Damascus is the capital of Syria, an Arab country… :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/8 "2014-07-18T18:05:00Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > … Knit an Afghan. … or even weave damask! You need a loom to weave, and even the [table-top versions](http://www.woolery.com/Store/pc/Table-Looms-c55.htm) exceed the [size restrictions](http://www.luggagesource.com/Carry-on-size-charts.aspx) for carry-on baggage. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/9 "2014-07-18T18:13:13Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > On my Facebook page, a friend posted a message, a photo of an airplane passenger with this message overprinted: …AIRPLANES HAVE NOW BANNED TWEEZERS. PERSONALLY I THINK ANYONE WHO CAN HIJACK A PLANE WITH TWEEZERS DESERVES THE PLANE. … How about that? [Your friend is uninformed.](http://www.seatguru.com/articles/tsa_prohibited_items.php) Tweezers allowed? Carry-on Bags-Yes Checked Bags-Yes ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/10 "2014-07-18T18:44:44Z")
I don’t know about tweezers, but my wife once had one of those tiny little eyeglass repair screwdrivers confiscated. I don’t know what they thought she would do with it. Stab someone? Pick the lock on the cockpit door? Take someone’s glasses apart? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/11 "2014-07-18T20:04:42Z")
> [@biqu](#): > > You need a loom to weave, and even the [table-top versions](http://www.woolery.com/Store/pc/Table-Looms-c55.htm) exceed the [size restrictions](http://www.luggagesource.com/Carry-on-size-charts.aspx) for carry-on baggage. Backstrap loom - I could make one out of: 2 18 inch long half inch pieces of dowel, with a notch grooved around each end about half an inch in from the tip. 1 22 inch strip of lathe, sanded very smooth and waxed to be a beater bar 2 lengths of parachute cord 36 inches long with 4 cable ties [you cable tie each of the dowels so they form the top and bottom bar of the loom] with the top end of the parachute cords tied to a metal ring or d-ring [used to tie off to a tree or the eat back in front of you] and a single d-ring or ring at the bottom ends of the cords [to attach to your belt to hold it stretched between your body and the seat back ahead of you.] Whatever you are going to string it with. and a shuttle loaded with whatever you are going to weft with. I would only string it with maybe 6 inches wide, and cheat and use a shorter beater, and use the beater to pick up the threads instead of a heddle. This [vid clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BI-4fVDKog) shows using a heddle and a pick up stick to weave in patterns, but you can just use a pick up stick to for the shed without a heddle. You can make a pin loom out of a freaking picture frame, for certain values of pin loom - instead of squares of rubberband looking wads of fabric, you simply warp it with regular yarn or cording, then weave on it with the equivalent of the long needle. Damn, I can’t remember the name of the kit where you use a 5 or 6 inch long needle to pull thread through the warp. Break for google. Ha, not what I wanted, but a cardboard homemade cheat sort of that [shows](http://www.home-dzine.co.za/crafts/craft-weave.htm) another suggestion. Sort of the ‘granny square’ of weaving, useful generlly for small things like hot pads or decorative doilies and pouches. Or you could do the [backstrap](http://nordic-aputsiaq.blogspot.com/2012/10/tabletcard-weaving.html) version of tablet weaving. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/12 "2014-07-18T22:30:52Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > A major terror ogranization would never attempt such a brash move as hijacking a plance with tweezers… > > This must be the work of a splinter group. 😃 Dammit - you owe me a new keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/13 "2014-07-19T00:24:30Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > A major terror ogranization would never attempt such a brash move as hijacking a plance with tweezers… > > This must be the work of a splinter group. If they use eyebrow tweezers, then I admire their pluck. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/14 "2014-07-19T04:35:53Z")
I can kill you 4 different ways with 3 inches of dental floss. Give to me your things! ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/15 "2014-07-19T05:22:29Z")
A vulture goes to the airport to catch a flight. A TSA agent notices he has a dead animal carcass in his suitcase and informs the bird this isn’t permitted in a checked bag. “That’s OK”, replies the vulture, “it’s carrion.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/16 "2014-07-19T05:57:59Z")
You should get 2 to 5 for that pun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comment-on-airline-security/693274/17 "2014-07-20T20:26:51Z")
I still think the most absurd thing I have seen confiscated was a bottle of baby apple sauce. The jar is under 100 ml, so it should have been allowed. My wife thought it would make a nice mid-flight snack. But no, no baby then no baby food allowed. You cannot argue with them.