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07-15-07, 02:16 PM
I don't know if this is a real question or more of a rant. Anyhoo this is my first time posting in foo. Normally I post in the road and road racing forums.
It used to be that you could take containers with creams or liquids on the plane as long as they fit in a quart-sized ziplock bag and each indivudual container was less than 3 or 4 oz. (I don't recall the exact number).
I was really surprised today that they wouldn't allow sealed containers of yogurt or even bottled water that had not yet been opened. A year or two ago those things were fine. Do they really think these increased restrictions are going to prevent major problems? People who are really intent on doing bad things to a plane are going to find ways to do so in spite of those rules. I ended up having to throw out the yogurt and bottled water. This was really frustrating given the price of such things within the airport terminals. Has anything that bad really happened within the last year or so to justify these additional restrictions?
It kind of reminds of how some warehouses and other places with have a single line of barbed wire running along a top of a tall fenceline to prevent people from getting in. The only thing this does is prevent random silliness from teenagers or petty crooks from just hopping over the fence on a whim. Any hardened criminal with the proper tools could easily bypass something like that....
Meanwhile they let me on the plane even though I had a ton of sliced-up watermelon in my carry-on bag. I could have gone on the plane, crushed that stuff to a pulp and extracted enough water that would have made them throw it out had I had all that water in its own container...
It used to be that you could take containers with creams or liquids on the plane as long as they fit in a quart-sized ziplock bag and each indivudual container was less than 3 or 4 oz. (I don't recall the exact number).
I was really surprised today that they wouldn't allow sealed containers of yogurt or even bottled water that had not yet been opened. A year or two ago those things were fine. Do they really think these increased restrictions are going to prevent major problems? People who are really intent on doing bad things to a plane are going to find ways to do so in spite of those rules. I ended up having to throw out the yogurt and bottled water. This was really frustrating given the price of such things within the airport terminals. Has anything that bad really happened within the last year or so to justify these additional restrictions?
It kind of reminds of how some warehouses and other places with have a single line of barbed wire running along a top of a tall fenceline to prevent people from getting in. The only thing this does is prevent random silliness from teenagers or petty crooks from just hopping over the fence on a whim. Any hardened criminal with the proper tools could easily bypass something like that....
Meanwhile they let me on the plane even though I had a ton of sliced-up watermelon in my carry-on bag. I could have gone on the plane, crushed that stuff to a pulp and extracted enough water that would have made them throw it out had I had all that water in its own container...