nonsense
Monday, 13. November 2006, 20:21:02
The new security measures for hand baggage on EU flights are utter nonsense.
The main rule is that no liquids may be brought through the security check, except for containers smaller than 100ml fitting into a 1ml plastic bag. The amount is determined by the size of the container, not the amount of liquid in it
- pray tell: what kind of sense does that make? Note that you can bring an empty bottle on board, so all you'd need for your half-empty bottle is a smaller container to temporarily fill the liquid into during security check: afterwards you can fill it back. "Obviously" you cannot bring sealed bottles on board (say e.g. wine bottles with a numbered governmental seal), since they may have been tampered with (i.e. we don't trust governmental seals anymore), but "obviously" you can buy bottles to bring on board once inside the security check: it all smells a bit too much of boosting the security area shops' business, doesn't it?
Well, to tell you the truth, I am mighty annoyed. Have we ever seriously considered how pathetic these security measures are? Has anybody ever heard of solid explosives? (or have we decided that the liquid ones are the only dangerous ones?) What would the difference between five 100ml containers vs one 500ml container be? What does make the five small containers more "secure"?
I have seen a lady forced to either throw her 250ml water bottle away, or drink it there, before the check! And this in Berlin Schönefeld, where you are given "boarding passes" without your name on it! I did check in, went for a stroll, and half an hour later went to board the plane: anybody, absolutely freakin' anybody could have boarded that plane instead of me, since there was no check whatsoever at the gate: the "boarding pass" got marked as "seen" manually, and I did not even have to show a passport!
P.S.: Yes, they did confiscate a 400ml jar of jam I had with me as a present for a friend. The 100ml jam was "secure" enough to be allowed on board.
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By lsaplai, # 14. November 2006, 03:00:14
What's even worse with all the new laws and rules: I'm not sure, what I'm allowed to take back (on the plane) to Germany, when I leave Australia on the end of December. I mean, if I perhaps can't even take some jam with me as a present...how cool is that?
I think all the security measures are just to impress people with something like "we're doing something for your security blah blub". I'm pretty sure, that there are still enough ways to get explosives (or whatever) on a plane, if you're serious about it.
By graste, # 14. November 2006, 07:32:03
Absolutely agree - it's a way to manipulate the masses to keep them under control.
Heh, no doubt! C'mon, we are not able to keep drugs and weapons outside prisons, which are high-surveillance *closed* environments - how do we even dream of keeping this stuff outside airports, which are *open* environments with thousands of people going in and out every day, eventually without being screened (all staff)?
By csant, # 14. November 2006, 18:08:14
and i admit, all that was true, except that they thought i will send it in a 102ml medicin bottle.
the package was already delivered, but instead of the medicine bottle, i putted it into two molotov-cocktail bottles one of 100ml and one of 2ml.
By Khaled Khalil, # 23. March 2007, 11:01:34