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TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades

coondoggie writes "Some of the travel recommendations posted on the Transportation Security Administration's blog seem stupefying obvious. This week's, entitled: 'Leave Your Grenades at Home' seemed like a no brainer, but alas. The TSA wrote about grenades in particular: Year to date, the agency's officers have discovered: 43 grenades in carry-on baggage and 40 grenades in checked baggage."

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  1. wait...even the Holy ones? by MoFoQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    wait...even the Holy ones?

    What about the foam ones? or the ones that are really balloons (but not filled up with anything yet)?

    1. Re:wait...even the Holy ones? by TrekkieGod · · Score: 2, Funny

      four is right out.

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  2. Re:Complete Failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The TSA sounds a lot like my exwife!

    Badumtish!

  3. Re:It isn't just grenades that they find by Greyfox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Like that scene from Airplane, they should just give you a gun if you don't have one when you check in at the gate. That'd make the whole process a lot easier...

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  4. In another announcement: by Hartree · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US Postal Service would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to get your letter bombs in the mail early this year.

    Thank You,

  5. Re:What about by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lasers not in the company of sharks appear to be OK.

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  6. Re:Complete Failure by dido · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
    Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
    Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
    Homer: I see.
    Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
    Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.

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  7. Re:Who... by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who in the world could ever possibly think it's a good idea to carry a grenade on board of a plane...

    To counter the snakes, of course.

  8. Re:What about by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lasers not in the company of sharks appear to be OK.

    Well duh. Sharks need more than 3 ounces of water. And if there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that more than 3 ounces of water is dangerous and only a terrorist would try to bring that though an airport checkpoint.

  9. Re: What about by jxander · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh but water, much like the atom, will completely lose power when split.

    That 6 oz. water container is hazardous and must be banned, but if split into 2 3oz bottles, the danger is gone.

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  10. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's your solution, then. Make the sturdy doors ugly.

  11. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, no laptops running Windows ME?

  12. Fireworks, explosives by jools33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in the 70s my father traveled from Aberdeen to London. In his baggage he had several kilos of explosives for an outdoor son et lumiere production he was the technical theater manager for. He was stopped by the security guard before boarding the plane. The guard asked "Sir what do you have in these bags" my father replied "explosives", the guard then replied "very funny sir" and waved him onto the plane. Times have changed... but it might surprise you what people think they can carry onto a plane.

  13. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, it's a nert with rounded corners.

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