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Bill is Dead.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Alaska.
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Shoestrings banned from flights
If the TSA ever gets this, you better get out your flip-flops and slippers.
Link to BATF letter in pdf format: http://tinyurl.com/2y3vrq
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07-13-2007, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Thats just wonderful. Do not want to ask them how they feel about rubber bands...
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07-13-2007, 10:20 AM
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"O"man(are we in trouble)
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: On the edge
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I normally wear flip flops these days when traveling by commercial aircraft since shoe laces are such a PITA after going through security. it is interesting that I carry a German made pen that has a metal case that will nicely serve a rather lethal weapon when the cap is removed and placed on the end, never been asked to get rid of it and it is w/ me whenever I fly, a rather sturdy piece of equipment.
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07-13-2007, 10:49 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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Banning shoe strings makes more sense than mostof the other inane things they make us do. There is no value to almost any of the insane regulations and body searches and no evidence that it has stopped a single terrorist attack. Richard Reid, after all, made it through with his show bomb and was only stopped by a passenger. The government deliberately makes the security procedure so expensive and cumbersome so that it makes people think they are doing something. Anyone with an ounce of sense and a bit of experience would know that the best way to enhance flying security is the cheapest. 1) increase intelligence sharing 2) develop and follow proven profiles, they do it for drugs, why can't they do it for terroists 3) secure cockpit doors, and 4) armed air marshals. Cost to the public - minimal. Inconvenience factor - nill. Increase in effective protection against hijacking - 100%
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07-13-2007, 12:13 PM
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Location: New York, NY USA
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It is Friday the 13th, not April 1st.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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take no chances. everybody fly naked
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Seattle--->ShangHai
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Mentos and coke was also recently banned.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Just outside the beltway
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I wore a pair of Birkenstock sandal through security and they made me take them off. You could see my FEET for crying out loud.
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