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TSA Will Permit Knives,
Golf Clubs on U.S. Planes
Bloomberg News, by Jeff Plungis
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Posted By:TrueBlueWfan, 3/5/2013 12:36:52 PM
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| The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, along with golf clubs, hockey sticks and plastic Wiffle Ball-style bats. The agency will permit knives with retractable blades shorter than 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) and narrower than 1/2 inch at the widest point, TSA Administrator John Pistole said today at an aviation security conference in Brooklyn.
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Comments:
So, 11 years after 9/11, and after spending untold billions for the TSA, we are essentially back where we started. Government must be a synonym for insanity.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
horacer, 3/5/2013 12:43:16 PM (No. 9209520)
Because no one´s ever been killed with a golf club, unless it was swung by a Kennedy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano, 3/5/2013 12:46:51 PM (No. 9209526)
Outstanding. Now it will be much easier to deal with groups of unruly Muslim passengers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Iowadad, 3/5/2013 12:49:19 PM (No. 9209534)
Elin Nordegren will be so relieved!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rolfnader, 3/5/2013 12:53:14 PM (No. 9209544)
This makes as much sense as the change they made shartly after the shoe bomber.Can´t have matches - but butane lighters? - Sure!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DaddyO, 3/5/2013 12:54:18 PM (No. 9209547)
Plastic wiffle bats were banned? Really?
Were they afraid someone might start playing wiffle ball while cruising at 30000 feet?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 3/5/2013 1:31:39 PM (No. 9209611)
Maybe now we can also carry on knitting needles, nail files and other harmless objects
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
federale, 3/5/2013 1:32:03 PM (No. 9209613)
Allow box cutters and return to pre 9-11 rules. As we all know, only guns are evil, not knives or the people who carry them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 3/5/2013 1:33:07 PM (No. 9209616)
I´ve seen Jack Bauer kill a dozen guys with golf clubs, and probably a hundred guys with teeny-tiny pocket knives? Are they SURE this is a good move? (I can´t remember ever seeing Jack kill somebody with a plastic novelty baseball bat, but it may have happened.)
(Years ago - before 9/11 - I was checking in at the KC airport. The guy asked if I had a knife; I did. He opened it and held it over his palm - and he wouldn´t allow it because it was longer than his palm width. As though his palm was the official measure. So they boxed it up and sent it as baggage.)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BitterClinger, 3/5/2013 1:48:08 PM (No. 9209642)
More proof that the TSA is actually engaged in a kind of theater of security, complete with peep shows and forced groping. They won´t allow box cutters but will allow 2.4 inch pocket knives? Either can be used to cut a man´s, or a woman´s, throat.
I´m not sure which should be held in greater contempt; the government or the people who tolerate this ongoing abuse of their dignity and liberty.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
schnapps, 3/5/2013 1:55:20 PM (No. 9209647)
Maybe it´s just me but I prefer to check hockey sticks and golf clubs.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 3/5/2013 2:03:13 PM (No. 9209658)
So instead of shouting Allah Akbar you`ll hear F-o-u-rrrrrrrrr
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone, 3/5/2013 2:33:03 PM (No. 9209717)
What they really should do is issue a baseball bat to every male passenger and to every female passenger who wants one as they get on commercial aircraft. If that were the case, it would be guaranteed that nobody would attempt to highjack an aircraft, as if they did, they would immediately be beat to death by the legitimate passengers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Videodrone, 3/5/2013 5:34:05 PM (No. 9210033)
that´s nice, can I carry my leatherman and tools again? sometimes they disappear out of my checked bag
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The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, along with golf clubs, hockey sticks and plastic Wiffle Ball-style bats. The agency will permit knives with retractable blades shorter than 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) and narrower than 1/2 inch at the widest point, TSA Administrator John Pistole said today at an aviation security conference in Brooklyn.
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