Everyone should be encouraged to take weapons onto flights

[Foursprouts 0]

Just a thought but if everyone was encouraged to take 6 inch hunting knives onto commercial flights wouldn't it make the flight safer as the person who managed to smuggle nail clippers on wouldn't have a chance of doing anything appart from clipping his nails.

[SkiD_PL8 0]

Please tell me you were trolling?

Greenie in training.

[billvon 3,118]

>f everyone was encouraged to take 6 inch hunting knives onto commercial flights wouldn't it make the flight safer . . .

I think everyone should take flasks of nitroglycerin on every flight. No terrorist would dare make a move. Heck, shooting someone (or even hitting them hard) could destroy the plane! There is no question that carrying unstable high explosives on board aircraft would make flying much safer.

[flyangel2 2]

What cracks me up is what I noticed on my last flight.

Standing in the security line I noticed a sign that said disposable lighters would not be allowed starting April 1st. What's so important about that date that makes lighters not safe? Why not ban them when I read the sign a few weeks ago?

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[leroydb 0]

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disposable lighters

so a non-disposable lighter is ok to take on a flight?

Leroy


..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio...

[flyangel2 2]

Guess so, it said disposable

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[Kennedy 0]

Zippo threw a shit fit about banning lighters for travel because so muc of their business is gift shop nick-knacks. Hence zippos are ok but somehow bic lighters are a no-no.

Ah, the illusion of safety - so much more important to the Thousands Standing Around (TSA) than actually preventing attacks.

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[justinb138 0]

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Zippo threw a shit fit about banning lighters for travel because so muc of their business is gift shop nick-knacks. Hence zippos are ok but somehow bic lighters are a no-no.

Ah, the illusion of safety - so much more important to the Thousands Standing Around (TSA) than actually preventing attacks.

I think the reasoning is that Zippo lighters don't rely on pressurised gas as fuel like bic lighters do. I'm not sure how the pressure would affect them though.

[Kennedy 0]

People used to take zippos and bics and everything else onto commercial flights without a hitch, other than that guy with the shoe, and 'way-back when,' people used the lighters on planes - by smoking.

I can't imagine any actual threat being posed by a lighter with compressed gas. As a by-the-by, it's easier to make bombs that use timers or electric switches than one that needs fire. Egg-timers and simple switches are still allowed in carry on.

for now...

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[justinb138 0]

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People used to take zippos and bics and everything else onto commercial flights without a hitch, other than that guy with the shoe, and 'way-back when,' people used the lighters on planes - by smoking.

I can't imagine any actual threat being posed by a lighter with compressed gas. As a by-the-by, it's easier to make bombs that use timers or electric switches than one that needs fire. Egg-timers and simple switches are still allowed in carry on.

for now...

What I don't understand is those little glass cases they have outside security with all the banned items in them - like pesticides,gasoline cans, leaf blowers, and chainsaws, etc....

Since when has people flying across the country to do yardwork been a problem?

[mnealtx 0]

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disposable lighters

so a non-disposable lighter is ok to take on a flight?

FWIW, last time I flew (Oct) I was told that my Zippo would no longer be allowed, either.

I'd say buy a single pack of book matches....

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[Red_Skydiver 0]

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Just a thought but if everyone was encouraged to take 6 inch hunting knives onto commercial flights wouldn't it make the flight safer as the person who managed to smuggle nail clippers on wouldn't have a chance of doing anything appart from clipping his nails.

Isn't that the very argument used by those pro guns in the usa?

[mr2mk1g 10]

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I can't imagine any actual threat being posed by a lighter with compressed gas.

I lit a large Coalbrookdale Severn stove years ago at my parent's place and absentmindedly placed the lighter neatly on top of the stove when I was done. I left the room and returned half an hour or so later to a roaring fire in the stove and a butane lighter perched atop, its content's literally boiling away inside.

I picked up the lighter using fire tongs and rushed it out of the house. Attempting to throw the lighter, its explosion now imminent, out of the back door and secure the safety of myself and the house, I lost grip with the tongues and instead flung the lighter against the doorframe, no more than a foot from my body.

It exploded on impact.

Stood in the confined space of a small outhouse I flinched and shielded my eyes but suffered no ill-effect beyond a ringing in my ears and the monotony of 5 minutes picking up all the little bits of neon green plastic.

Sure a fragment in the eye would have sucked... but even a brand new lighter heated to boiling point aint gonna do shit to a plane, nor anyone in it.

[JohnMitchell 16]

And now there is a limit on how many books of matches you can carry on. As if you'd need more than 40 to 60 little paper matches to light your bomb. Ridiculous.

[freethefly 6]

Mid 80's thru mid 90's I ofton flew with my Buck 110 strapped to my belt or in my briefcase. Never questioned as I removed it to walk through the metal detector. I was however, once, told that I could not board with a bullet that was on my key chain. The bullet was not useable. They confiscated the round but let me board with my knife no questions asked.

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When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[rehmwa 2]

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Mid 80's thru mid 90's I ofton flew with my Buck 110 strapped to my belt or in my briefcase. Never questioned as I removed it to walk through the metal detector. I was however, once, told that I could not board with a bullet that was on my key chain. The bullet was not useable. They confiscated the round but let me board with my knife no questions asked.

Hey, if you hid in the lavatory, and took that bullet and then took out the slug and weld repaired the holes and replaced the primer and put in powder and replaced the slug, you could then stick it in the wall and tap/tap/tap the primer with the tip of your knife and make a scary noise and burn your hand.

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[mr2mk1g 10]

You've been watching too much McGiver

[christelsabine 1]

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You've been watching too much McGiver

I'd say: in the contrary! McG was solving all problems by using only 2 tools, f.e. a pc of twine and his brilliant mind
LMAO

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[mr2mk1g 10]

Well.... the A-Team then... and just like in true A-Team form the invention he creates while locked in the loo won't actually hurt anybody.