Southwest cancels flight after box cutter found

Those are the questions..... and I do think that a lot of people will be hurt along the way.

 

And you have to put a C-note in the "tip jar" to avoid an anal probe from a blue glove?

 

Sadly, the theme park would probably be full of "anything for safety" apologists standing in line awaiting their turn to be abused.

 

I hope so but back in the McCarthy era, people weren't afraid of water > 3oz.

 

Why would an EvilDoer bother to try to get an obvious item onto an aircraft? I wish the Johnny PeePants that decided to cancel this flight would stop to think about all the improvised weapons that can made from ordinary objects that otherwise are allowed into the sterile area.

Slashing weapon? Take a blade from a disposable razor, then insert it into the soft plastic of a toothbrush that was heated by a match. I think a prison inmate would be thrilled to have my rollaboard and laptop bag with all the stuff in it that is considered contraband in their environment.

None of this is a secret. Here some how-to guides - check 'em out at the library:

And

 

Maybe we should ban reading so that we can't learn how to make all of these things. (heavy sarcasm)

 

That's what they used to do with slaves -- slaves that could read might get ideas & get uppity.

 

Shush all of you! DHS is reading all this and taking notes!!!

This makes me think of that internet mail and sprouted out stats and facts about how many people a year die from drowning and urging everyone to sign a petition to ban the cause: water.

By the same logic, think of hoe many thousands of people die a year in a car crash.
OMG Cars should be banned!! They are dangerous! In fact, with "See something, say something" I should report my neighbors to social services and TSA. I see him everyday putting his kids in a car and driving them to school. That's dangerous and a threat to his kids that he drives them around in a car when so many people die in car crashes!

OMG a utility knife abandoned on the overhead bin! Shut down the country.
(because one isn't enough)

 

Not to mention how happy the flight attendants are to hand you any number of potential weapons just for asking.