Wow. That doesn’t seem very secure at all. Are there guards protecting the deliveries of alcohol to the airport? What’s stopping me from fixing myself up a nice bomb disguised in a six-pack of lager and switching it for a real one at some point during the delivery/unpacking? It’s not like I, hypothetical terrorist, care which flight I blow up.
OK, but what about Solid Snake, or Solidus Snake?
I guess Naked Snake and Old Snake don’t pose any real threat?
Raiden on the other hand, make that fucker walk!
CMC fnord!
Well, they did have some intense negotiations here at SJU to hammer that out, I think we were among if not the first to adopt that system – you can imagine the Rum Lobby is mighty around here…
Well I may be biased (being from WV and all. Hi y’all) but I think the hair trigger wasn’t in WV. As far as I can tell, the federal TSA employees did exactly as their Washington DC bosses would have them do when their federally mandated sniffer machine set off an alarm, presumably as it was designed to do. Now it looks likely that the whole thing is just an unfortunate set of circumstances but the hair trigger wasn’t exactly a bunch of local Deputy Fifes in a anti-“feriner” hair trigger panic mode.
Given that there’s no evidence that any of those arrested had airline reservations, or passports, or had tried to prepare such an explosive combination from “innocuous liquids” themselves, how well-organised could they have possibly been?
How about the snake from Badger Badger Badger, cunningly concealed in your laptop’s hard drive?
Same thing that stopped them from disguising it as a carton of Marlboros for the last decade. Allegedly (I haven’t had the pleasure to use the airport this week) SJU is putting the duty-free goods through secondary inspection for delivery.
The story is still evolving: link. And the vast majority of Brits hold passports, and a flight can be booked at any time (or the name changed at the last minute, if you want to keep it under a pseudonym).
Ah, good.
As a weekly air traveller I can say with some professional experience that there will never, ever come a time, no matter how long this ban on liquids holds, that every full flight will not have at least ten to twenty retards trying to bring liquids on board. People getting on planes cannot even seem to comprehend such basic instructions as “Have photo ID ready” or “We’re boarding rows 22 and higher.”
Og forbid someone smuggles methyl ethyl ketone peroxide on board a plane in their bladder. Mandatory catheters for all passengers!
“I know we’re boarding rows 22 and higher. I’m not stupid. But I’m in row 19, which is really close. And I’ve been waiting in lines for the last two hours. So I ought to be able to go now. And my ID’s in my wallet. It’ll only take a second to get to it. And I’m taking my Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper on the plane with me. I’m not a terrorist, so why are they worried about my soft drink? Why don’t they check the terrorist’s drinks and let me drink in peace?”
I agree with just about all of your rant. People who can’t fucking listen to simple instructions about flying annoy the fuck out of me. Just reading RickJay’s post brings back memories of the dozens of morons who i’ve seen do similar stuff.
But panic?
If you (generic you) panic upon seeing a bottle of water or a tube of toothpaste confiscated at the security checkpoint, might i suggest you go home, seal up your windows with plastic wrap and duct tape, and sit in front of the TV until about, say, 2063.
You’ll feel a lot better, and those of us who want to carry on actually living (rather than just existing) will be happier.
The TV? Are you fucking crazy? Do you know what subliminal messages are being broadcast, even when it is switched off?
Probably a good idea to throw a few “allegedly”'s in there.
And don’t forget to remain sceptical.
All right, I realise that the story hasn’t been proven, but the people who are enacting these rules are working on the assumption that the plot was real.
Not everyone stays glued to whatever bullshit gets dreamed up after a few Muslims get high, watch Die Hard 3 and then one of them gets captured and tortured until he pretends it’s a working reality.
Let us hope that they do not watch Die Hard 2 and get ideas about being creative with airports.
What about people who don’t have the prescription? In many countries (including in my experience Spain, France, Italy, Germany - me and my coworkers need to stop getting sick abroad) you hand your prescription to the pharmacist when you buy the medication.
Oh wait. Are prescriptions by non-US doctors even accepted?
The current UK regulations are that “Prescribed medicines in liquid form, eg diabetic medicines, under 50ml, must be verified by a pharmacist at any of the airport pharmacies.” So you don’t actually need the written prescription.