Plugging Security Holes

[CPT Tripss]

What do they want, spoons in a Steakhouse?

http://data.newsday.com/projects/long-island/transportation/airport-knife-risk/

 

[bumbershoot]

Chicken Little is so cute.

A screener from the TSA was vigilant, immediately spotting a small pocket knife we tried on one occasion to carry into the airport in a briefcase as a test. He confiscated it with a warning, “No knives can fly.”

And yet from the TSA site...

Scissors - metal with pointed tips and blades shorter than 4 inches are allowed, but blades longer than 4 inches are prohibited

So, apparently, just put out 3.99 inch serrated scissors on the table and it's fine? (not sure how that would help diners, but at least they would be allowed to go on the plane if someone felt like taking them)

At Kennedy Airport’s Terminal 5, the JetBlue Airways terminal, customers cut through 5ive Steak’s 20-ounce ribeye ($49) with the sort of tiny, clear plastic knife you’d get at a picnic. “Sorry, Port Authority rules, not ours,” said the waitress. If we had trouble with our steak, she said, she could take it back to the kitchen, where the butcher knives are tethered to tables, and cut it up into small pieces. But the plastic knife did the job.

Interesting that the plastic knife worked.

The TSA argued then that small knives are already allowed in international aviation and that nobody could hijack a plane now with a pocket knife because of the layers of post-9/11 security: hardened cockpit doors and alert passengers who may now be emboldened to attack hijackers.

Honestly, I think it's that last bit that is the MOST accurate of anything else. Americans were so ridiculously naive and innocent. No more bubble.