[Harp-L] airport security

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:00 PM, tom ball wrote:

> RE: the recent thread on airport security and harps:  On a flight to 
> London a couple weeks ago, my harps got through fine but they 
> confiscated a one-inch-long tweezers from my carry-on bag.  I wasn't 
> even aware that I had a tweezers -- at the last minute my wife had 
> snuck one of those miniature "first-aid kits" into the bag.  The lady 
> at the X-ray booth scowled and took my 'weapon' away.
>
> Now I ask you, what could a potential terrorist do with an inch-long 
> tweezers?  "Take this plane to Havana or I'll pluck that nostril hair! 
>  I'll tweeze your eyebrow! Do what I say or I'll remove that splinter 
> from your foot!"
>
> later,
> -TB
> _

 I hate to be one to throw meat cleavers but it's all the fault of the 
airlines. The "Pilot in Command" has the final say as to whether a 
firearm can be carried on a plane. Over a period of 27 YEARS, I could 
have been armed when I flew, but it never happened because the pilots 
didn't want anyone on the plane with more authority than THEM. I rarely 
fly now and it's not because I'm afraid, I simply can't stand their 
attitude(s).
smo-joe