>AIR-HEADS READY TO ALLOW BLADES
>By GEOFF EARLE and IAN BISHOP Post Correspondents
>
>November 4, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — The flying public turned
>white-knuckled yesterday over word that the feds might ease post-9/11
>restrictions to allow passengers to bring scissors and small knives
>aboard planes again.
>
>"I'd like to know why [knives] are no longer a threat when they were a
>threat over the last four years," fumed Rep. Joseph Crowley
>(D-Queens), whose firefighter cousin was killed on 9/11.
I'd like to see a new airplane horror movie about hijacking an
airplane using an electric razor, a plastic knife, and a hijacker
threatening to slit the throat of a flight attendant using an airline
ticket ("paper cut! paper cut!"). If we're talking about 1 1/2"
pocket knives, they are not likely to inflict anywhere near the
damage a hijacker could do with his teeth. Or his fists. Or he
could do a lot of damage beating someone over the head with a nearby
small child.
Gordon L. Burditt |
