TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades

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TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:50AM from the thanks-for-the-tip dept.

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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For those of you that don't RTFA... by OrangeTide · 2013-09-11 11:53 · Score: 5, Informative

a majority of the confiscated grenades are fake, replicas or otherwise inert.

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1. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... by omnichad · 2013-09-11 14:16 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Furthermore, if I'm reading the numbers right, 1 live grenade out of 84 found - and that one was an accident by a travelling solider. The rest were completely inert and only look dangerous.
2. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... by cold+fjord · 2013-09-11 14:45 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  I'm afraid your lovely theory is ruined by the history of hijacking.
  El Al Flight 426 hijacking
  Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. - Aircraft Hijacking
  Hijacked Iraq Jet Crashes, Killing 62 : Two Hurl Grenades, Force Airliner Down in Saudi Arabia
  There are more.
  
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  much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Fuck Network World by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-11 11:55 · Score: 5, Informative

Link to the fucking TSA blog, not the idiotic morons at Network World: http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/09/tsa-travel-tips-tuesday-leave-your.html . Please do not click NW links, and if you must, be sure to have your ad blocker on.