Comments on: TSA: “We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.”

By: ChrisMac

ChrisMac — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:55:53 +0000

if your flying anywhere.. why take shit with you?

laptop or hair gel.. you don’t need it

By: OmarTheAlien

OmarTheAlien — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:38:41 +0000

I don’t fly unless I’m the pilot, and I haven’t flown an airplane since ’71.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:08:55 +0000

“Prohibited items obviously include weapons, explosives, and incendiaries, but also items that are seemingly harmless and may be used as weapons like hammers, bats, or mace.”

On a side note unrelated to the above quote from the TSA Editorial, would it be better to invest in Procter & Gamble or to instead start fencing toothpaste, gel deodorant, and bras from a little rug in the airport lobby to travelers who just arrived to their destination without their personal hygeine items? Will hotels save money because people stop stealing the shampoo and conditioner, or will they lose even more money because everyone gets the little pinky-sized complimentary toothpaste from the front desk?

By: Milo

Milo — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:11:41 +0000

I thought I heard JCD say that it’s basically impossible for anyone to mix up explosives on a plane. I have a CM thread started here:

http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php/topic,386.0.html

Let me know how you’d do it!

By: Don

Don — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:07:29 +0000

SN: On domestic flights I always FedEx or UPS valuable items a day or two ahead of time, then they’re waiting for me at my destination, safe, intact and without a lot of lip from a TSA flunky.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:01:27 +0000

It’s important to realize that cargo holds have extensive fire supression systems in them as well. Don’t get me wrong, having to check everything is nuts, but a laptop battery exploding wouldn’t be much worse down below.

By: Ed G.

Ed G. — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:16:06 +0000

I quess that Osama is going to pay for implants for his female suicide bombers. Imagine breast implants filled with HE.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:12:01 +0000

My wife has had her breast removed due to cancer. Now if the TSA makes that an issue that makes her uncomfortable in any way or singles her out for some kind of special treatment by security. I will sue everyone in a 1000ft. radius. But I can see right now that we will never fly anywhere again commercially.
I’m completely fed up with all of this.

By: SN

SN — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:09:20 +0000

“The manner in which airlines move and track luggage has stayed the same for the last ten or so years.”

The answer is simple. Airlines should FedEx all luggage to the passenger’s destination.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:08:12 +0000

Why would I, a man of who doesn’t dance unless music is playing, need a gel-filled bra? Why I ask you, why!?

By: Floyd

Floyd — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:13:50 +0000

4: From what I read in the, once you’re past the inspection, you can buy something to eat or drink while waiting to get on the plane, but you can’t take the food or drink on the plane. I’d guess that the plane will still have drinks available from the attendants on longer flights.

By: Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:18:39 +0000

I’ve never seen a TSA officer smile before:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/screening/index.shtm

So once you are past security you can’t even buy a drink? That’s blows cause I don’t like to be thirsty. I always take something to drink when I fly.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:16:21 +0000

Actually, cargo holds have fire detectors and fire suppression systems so a laptop battery explosion would likely be contained.

By: thought police

thought police — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:08:17 +0000

hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

thats what you get for flying. take a boat or the train.

By: Ben Franske

Ben Franske — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:07:52 +0000

I encourage you to call the TSA and ask them how they are ensuring that the (now prohibited) gel filled bras are not getting through security checkpoints.