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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."
Simple.... all those grenades....0 of them in the hands of terrorists. That should tell you this is a stupid issue.
Because no terrorist would want to bring a grenade on a plane?
If the existing security is finding the grenades they don't need additional security.
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
Actually, no.
Leaded glass does not have enough lead to make that much of a difference to xrays of the strength used to scan luggage.
Its not the same high lead content glass you find in radiation shielding items.
Further, nobody wastes leaded glass on perfume bottles any more, which is why all of the
old ones are becoming such collector's items.
Finally, anything you put in or on your body would/should not be stored in leaded glass.
You might drink wine or bourbon from a leaded glass, but you should never store it in such.
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More people died that day 12 years ago in car crashes than have died in all terrorist attacks within the USA *ever*. The TSA has killed more people than the terrorists did by making flying less pleasant so people take the far less-safe option of driving (actually, the break-even point for deaths from the Sep 11 attacks vs. deaths from TSA asshattery was passed over seven years ago).
I'm not saying it shouldn't be prosecuted or anything like that, but you (and well-meaning idiots like you, along with plenty of less-well-meaning people out to make a buck or grab some power) have blown the whole thing massively out of proprotion. How many people have died as a *direct* result of the US's response to those terrorist attacks, huh? Hell, how many of just US citizens? How many billions of dollars of military materiel? How many government expenditures on things like increased survellance and provably-ineffective airport scanners (strap a knife to your side; they can't see it)?
Let's assume that those $100 billion were all *directly* attributable to the terrorists (and not to, for example, re-routing planes all across the continent, shutting down airports, etc.). Wow, that sounds like a lot of money! Now, let's look at the damage to the US economy from the 2008 sub-prime mortgage collapse. The terrorists are all dead, and we spent a fuckton more money to go hunt down everybody connected to them. How about those bankers, though?
You go mourn your few thousand. Those of us who try to not let logic override our sense will fight the bigger threats to society, such as people who massively overreact to terrorism and do more damage to the country than the terrorists themselves could ever have dreamed of causing. Please stay the fuck out of our way.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
So would a bottle of high-proof alcohol, set on fire by a lighter. (Both of which were easily purchasable once past TSA security the last time I flew.)