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Thursday, March 27, 2008
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9 Comments:
I beg to differ. I was scarred for life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy
The Horror.
GruntDoc
haha
The spokesman's claim of the policy is a bit irrelevant, if the article is correct. The spokesman said that if the metal detector (meaning the initial one) goes off, the passenger can be subject to additional screening. On the other hand, the article says that the metal detector did not go off, but the passenger was selected for the "random" additional screening, at which point the more sensitive hand wand did find the jewelry. Of course, arguing logic with TSA is pretty much like arguing with a tree, and three times as likely to make you late for your next flight (or 100).
Well, they've done me in a couple of times...
Wow, lookin' at her I wouldn't guess her for the type to have nipple rings.
I dunno about nipples themselves being dangerous weapons, but once upon a time I ended an argument with my husband by squirting him with breastmilk. So there are possibilities.
But yet I am allowed to get on a plane with my knitting needles? Which seems more dangerous?
Radioactive girl
I once was asked to leave behind my embroidery scissors (you know, the very small ones shaped like a stork). Very lethal weapons against an airline pilot those are...
The TSA has odd ideas about what constitutes dangerous.
For a lot of years I had a finger splint on my pinky b/c the middle joint collapsed while playing music. It was basically two elongated silver rings...tiny, not sharp, just supportive of the joint.
It got so that I never noticed it - I never took my wedding ring off, and never took off the splint, either. But at Denver, my left hand set off the detector, and from the hubbub, you'd think two rings of silver and a wedding ring were going to stop the earth's rotation. Yes, I'm a guy; extra jewelry raises eyebrows. But this was a valid medical device....sigh.
And when we got in, the guy in the seat next to me found that they'd missed his mini-swiss army knife.
Sabra,
That'll usually win an argument with me. I think they are very dangerous.
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