Well, this is the problem with the really good trolls like VCO3. They can’t just make up stupid stuff and let us laugh about it, they’ve got to push and push and eventually signal that they’re in on the joke, because what fun is it to fool people unless they know you fooled them? And so our clever trolls eventually get themselves banned, when they could have entertained us for years, all because they wanted some sort of credit for how clever they were at acting like a moron.
VCO3 seems to have reached the point where it’s no fun anymore to keep pretending to be a garden-variety idiot, and so he’s gotta ramp it up another notch. But the trouble is, this is going to get him banned, and then he’ll have broken his new toy, and then he won’t be having any fun anymore anyway.
Ah well. I guess it’s one of those circle of life things.
Yeah, I was wrong. It usually isn’t people of middle eastern nationality or religion that are unfairly detained, kicked off planes, and otherwise profiled since 9/11. Oh wait it totally is!
That’s a remarkably optimistic prediction. Why do you believe people will be delighted at seeing someone work on circuitry that, to their eyes, looks like it could be a bomb?
Exactly. It’s not illegal to read Playboy. It’s not illegal to take Playboy on a plane. But there was quite a stir a while back (covered in Playboy, among other sources) when an airline made a passenger stow the copy of Playboy he was reading. Tried to search up a link, but all I get is links about a scantilly clad passenger being booted from a Southwest flight, later posing for Playboy.
Yeah, because ignoring security officers’ questions and walking away while carrying putty that looks like plastic explosive connected to something electronic you’re wearing on your chest (example 1) and actually announcing that you have a bomb is TOTALLY comparable to explaining that what you have is not a bomb in any way. MORON.
Well, I wouldn’t bet on ever doing it again, should you actually try this stunt.
There’s always a chance the security guys and the flight attendants are cool, but the odds of you being put on a no-fly list and/or getting tossed in jail are directly proportional to the number of times you find yourself saying “it’s just a harmless hobby!” Say it once (and then relent) and you might get by. Say it twice and people will start calling for backup. Third time - taser city, which I don’t think will be good for you or your electronic components, though perhaps you can rationalize it as a way to trick the airline into giving you free electricity.
I’m assuming, of course, that you know all this and the thread (and subsequent disingenuous “Who, me? I’m just an innocent in all this!”) was just an attempt at chain-yanking. In the incredibly unlikely event it isn’t, when you fly on Saturday, signal us by wearing a t-shirt with a logo from one of the Chicago pro sports teams on it (in reference to the Chicago Reader) so when we see the news, we’ll know that you actually tried it and aren’t just a lying chickenshit. What airport will you allegedly be flying from?
And I’d just like to say that the locked thread did contain a valuable and interesting link to that “Instructables” page, which went immediately into my favourites, so it wasn’t a total waste of time. Since I also do the occasional hobby project (though not on planes) I look forward to reviewing that site thoroughly.
Even if you are technically allowed to do it, pretty much everyone has told you that the best case scenario is that you will be detained while the TSA makes sure that what you have are bombmaking material. If you are on the plane, you will be arrested by the the marshalls and the plane will land while everything is examined. Your already long trip will be much longer.
You continue to hurt and insult at every opportunity. The conversation evolved and mutated, which is what conversations do. Once everyone started to overwhelmingly tell me that they thought I wouldn’t be allowed to do it, the line of conversation turned to “well, that’s not very fair, now is it?”
That’s what happens when a conversation mutates and evolves. You yourself gave me a special warning for not keeping up my end of the conversation in the pit, by posting and not returning to topics. Now, when I keep a topic going and the conversation continues with back and forth banter and evolution, the thread gets LOCKED. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I’m starting to feel like you mods are specifically trying to box me in; you punish me for doing one thing by warning me, then you lock my thread when I do the opposite, which is what you tell me to do.
Poor thing. There, there. I only hurt because I love.
My comment on the stupidity of your question had nothing to do with the fact that you actually participated in the thread. It was the fact that the question itself was so patently retarded that you were either posting it to make a (fairly dumb) point and/or troll, or you actually are blindingly, gaspingly stupid.
As for the thread closing, that’s just part of the blatant stupidity package. Keep that in mind for your next “DURRRRR! I DROPPED MY CHOCKAMUT ICE CREAM!!” opus.
Now, I normally don’t participate in these sorts of threads, but there is an inconsistency that I think explains the closing, namely two lines in the OP in the locked thread:
Essentially, you preface your questions by admitting it was asking for trouble. This to me means you already realized there was a non-insignificant chance that someone “freaking out”.
Further, regardless as to whether is is legal or not, there is VERY THICK noticable line between “legal to do” and “wise to do”. You know full-well that the people performing the searches are probably not the brightest bulbs out there. You know full well that many of other passengers and the flight crew are also rather dim. You know full well that, to the untrained eye that has been excessively exposed to hollywood, a bunch of small electronic components could very well appear to be parts for a bomb or some other “scary” device. Professing anything to the contrary is either willful ignorance or incomprehensible naivete.
If you bring those items with you, the probability is very high that you will have to explain them multiple times, and go through excessive searches, and at best, likely have to toss them, and at worst, spend some time with the authorities. The fact that you seem to have decided you’d bring them with you shows an utter disregard for everyone with whom you will be forced to interact as part of the security scans and for your fellow passengers. Is there nothing else you can do to entertain yourself that doesn’t carry such a high probability of nasty side-effects?
IOW, you’re either ignorant or naive or much more likely feigning it, and you’re completely inconsiderate at best. At the very least, if it were a legitimate question, the moderator said it was answered, with regard to the legality. If that was all you were seeking, you got your answer and dragging on a thread that was spiralling downward made it a good decision to lock it. Considering that the opinion question WAS stupid (as you all but admitted in the same post), it was not worth arguing about and made it a good decision to lock it. Either way, both questions were dumb because anyone with any common sense would know that doing such a thing “…is asking for trouble.”
If by some off chance you really were asking a serious question, as unlikely as it seems to me, being less abrasive toward those participating in your thread and the moderators would go a long way in staving off what is likely an imminent banning.
Taking it out and tinkering with it on the plane does not differ significantly from wearing it on your chest, and the presence or lack of silly putty will not be a deal breaker. Look closely at her little “work of art,” and look at yours. Likewise, explaining that the bomblike device you have is, despite appearances, actually not a bomb is not a guarantee that the men holding guns on you will not shoot you anyway out of an abundance of caution if you do not drop it fast enough for their tastes. You asked about the legal implications of carrying such a device on a plane, and the answer is that it can get you legally arrested or declared legally dead.
Look, even if you’re trolling to get a rise out of us idjits on the message board and see ho much BS we’ll swallow, this is an incredibly bad idea. You’re joking on the internet about carrying a device that appears to be a hoax bomb onto an airliner, something which could come to the attention of the notoriously humorless FBI who then shows up on the doorstep of your real life self. Who’s the moron then?
I have a similar question. I am a gun enthusiast and would like the opportunity to clean my guns while taking a flight, seeing as how I have all that spare time? Do you think that will be a problem?
Blaster Master, you are a junior mod and it’s embarrassing. Please stop biting the asses of the powers that be in hopes that one day you’ll be one of Tubadiva’s chosen children.
If the mods locked every OP that was answered, they would lock every thread on that forum. This was elective and malicious and meant to humiliate me.
I know human nature, which is why I said “I know this might be asking for trouble since 9/11,” but I wanted some opinions on how people might react. Turns out it’s most likely that some CSI-watching grandma from Omaha is likely to shit her depends when she sees two wires and a blinking light, so the conversation mutated into, “well, that’s not fair, innit?”