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Old August 14th 06, 11:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Emily[_1_]
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Default Consequence of shifting carry-on luggage to checked luggage foraircraft weight

Jim Macklin wrote:
Are those fun bags saline or liquid explosive?

Did that fellow have plastic explosive surgery?

Instead of drugs, did they swallow explosives?

Ideas like these?


I think I've told this story here before, but I heard Ollie North tell a
great story an incident at Raleigh just after the shoe bomber incident.
Basically, when the TSA told him to take off his shoes and he asked
why, the TSA officer said, "Well, sir, I don't know if you heard about
this, but someone tried to blow up a plane with his shoe." North looked
at him and said, "So what happens when someone tries to blow up a plane
with his underwear." Next thing he knew, he was up against the wall
waiting for the cops to show up to deal with the guy with the bomb in
his underwear.

The TSA officer has no idea who he was, but the cops did when they
showed up. He said even after the cops called him Colonel North and
explained to the TSA officer who he was, he still didn't know. I'm
really not sure what that says about the TSA.

My brother's idea is just to make everyone fly naked.