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Monday, May 23, 2005


Please be sure your M-16 is safely stowed in the overhead compartment. Your fingernail files? Sorry, but we have to confiscate those.

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Be sure and scroll down to the 5/19/05 entry:
Speaking to 280 fellow soldiers before they boarded a chartered DC-10 at the start of their marathon flight from Savannah to Kuwait City earlier this week, King was thunderous, blunt and well armed with an M-16 rifle slung over his shoulder.

"Interfering with a flight crew is a serious crime," he told them. "Don't be stupid. Don't be a moron. Don't even joke about going to Havana. That's not where we're headed today."

King, who in civilian life is the Doraville police chief, rolled his eyes at the FAA regulation that requires soldiers -- all of whom were armed with an arsenal of assault rifles, shotguns and pistols -- to surrender pocket knives, nose hair scissors and cigarette lighters.

"If you have any of those things," he said, almost apologetically, "put them in this box now."
Your bayonet and military rifle are ok, but you simply can't get on that airplane with a fingernail file. . . .

If that doesn't epitomize the stupidity of the current TSA foolishness, I don't know what does.



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