3/15/2003: Airport security's taken items

Undertoad · 03-15-2003, 01:59 PM

This is a shot of items that were confiscated at Baltimore-Washington International Airport by security. And a PSA: if you're flying, you can't take scissors with you. Or garden tools. Or corkscrews or specialty tweezers or wrenches or utility knives or toenail clippers or swiss army knives or medical clamps.

Says here that airport screeners have seized more than 4.8 million items in the last 13 months, including a circular saw.

Not sure why the wrench is prohibited, but maybe an industrious terrorist could unbolt pieces of the plane during flight.

03-15-2003, 01:59 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/15/2003: Airport security's taken items This is a shot of items that were confiscated at Baltimore-Washington International Airport by security. And a PSA: if you're flying, you can't take scissors with you. Or garden tools. Or corkscrews or specialty tweezers or wrenches or utility knives or toenail clippers or swiss army knives or medical clamps. Says here that airport screeners have seized more than 4.8 million items in the last 13 months, including a circular saw. Not sure why the wrench is prohibited, but maybe an industrious terrorist could unbolt pieces of the plane during flight.

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