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Subject: Re: Flying public gets white knuckles over TSA plans Posted on: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:23:26 -0800

Gordon Burditt wrote:

> 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.

I think you could slit a throat with one of those tiny Swiss Army knives.
Those things are really sharp and the carotids aren't buried all that deep.
Have you ever tried beating someone over the head with a child? Doesn't work
worth shit.

The Archie Bunker solution seems not all that unreasonable -- just give a
loaded gun to everyone on the plane.

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