I'm catching up on the news, having not paid much attention for the past few days. And as if reading my mind, I came across this little ditty in the NYTimes today:The Airport Security Follies
By Patrick Smith
Dec 28, 2007, 6:52 pm
The clincher (as pertains to my poor wine bottle):
At every concourse checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with contraband containers...Now, the assumption has to be that the materials are potentially hazardous. If not, why were they seized in the first place? But if so, why are they dumped unceremoniously into the trash? They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away. The agency seems to be saying that it knows these things are harmless. But it’s going to steal them anyway, and either you accept it or you don’t fly.
3 comments:
I read that NYT blog too, and its certainly time to revisit these sometimes bizarre rules.
Not that this will present a problem on a slow boat to Antartica.
Especially with a 33 lb weight limit to our luggage... No room for wine, penguins, ice, or any other 'dangerous' materials that would alert Homeland Security.
Well, you wouldn't want it to weight too much anyway as your luggage is supposed to double as a flotation device.
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