"exlibris" wrote in message
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> penrose@spamcop.net wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 May 2005 19:56:18 +0200, Donna Evleth
>> wrote:
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>>>>From: ehol@xmission.xmission.com (eric h)
>>>>Organization: XMission Internet http://www.xmission.com
>>>>Newsgroups: rec.travel.air,rec.travel.usa-canada
>>>>Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 05:43:50 +0000 (UTC)
>>>>Subject: Re: Taking off shoes at the airport
>>>>
>>>>In article <7ofh8190adg0aju9jdv6ltutagfl8hnkfa@4ax.com>,
>>>>Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>They did send my wallet thru the x-ray and I was quite vocal about
>>>>>them
>>>>>needing to keep an eye on it (which would cause other passengers to
>>>>>keep an
>>>>>eye on the TSA) - until they returned it to me.
>>>>
>>>>EWR xrayed my wallet too. I guess they must think it serves a useful
>>>>purpose.
>>>
>>>I don't understand why everyone is so upset about taking off shoes at
>>>airports. Can anyone explain?
>>>
>>>Donna Evleth
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>> Partly it's the princile of it...we were born free in this country and
>> up until allt his nonsense the givernment usually had toprovide
>> reasinable suspicin before searching people.
>>
>> Nest, people get annoyed because it's senseless and won't prevent
>> squat..it's like their fetish formetal, completely ignoring the fact
>> that yuou can make a dandy knife out of glass or stone or ceramics and
>> their detectors won't spot it short of a thorough pat-down search.
>>
>> Finally...what is it had been Ms. Reid and she had had a brassiere
>> bomb...would you be so sanguine if every woman had to remove her bra
>> and have it x-rayed?
>>
>> I just thank the gods it wasn't a "jock strap" bomb.... :)
>>
>> None of the current security precautions would hgave prevented 9/11
>> and none of them will prevent the next attack, whatever and whenever
>> it occurs.
>>
>> What does work is that nowadays, passengers will beat the living
>> daylights out of or klill if necesary, anyone who even treis to take
>> over an airplane. That beats all the badly used x-ray and bomb
>> sniffing gear inthe world.
>>
>> Ever wonder if the guys on the fuel trucks get security checks? Plane
>> has thousands of gallons of stuff waiting to go boom..just need to
>> attach a small timer device to the fuel cap when they put it back
>> on.that can make a nice hole in fuel tank and a spark....
>>
>> Jim P.
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> >>Donna Evleth,
> Are you so dense that you can not imagine yourself catching some
> fungal infection. Never heard of athletes foot? There are
> probably more than fifteen diseases transmitted this way. Do they
> disinfect the floor after each traveller?
> Happy barefooting.
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