Oh, the stupidity of it. Toothpaste, a bit of shampoo, even a bottle of water bought in the damn airport - a threat to civilization as we know it. Even the tiny can of Coke given to me by staff on leg A of my SAS trip turns out to be a threat to national security when I board leg B of my SAS trip an hour later.
That's because they don't know that it really was SAS Coke, and not bin Laden-ist Coke you'd managed to get somewhere inside the security cordon. You can tell bin Laden, et al., hate America because they use real sugar in their soda pop, which could be used as a weapon to spontaneously cause the captain of the flight to develop a cavity, and then the plane would crash because all the toothpaste had been taken away to help stave off disaster. The Evil Doers™ are just that clever. And they hate America. And freedom. And puppies.
When I complained to my father about my toothpaste being a threat to national security, he told me that the Frankfurt airport took away the yoghurt that Lufthansa gave him on his flight in when he tried to leave, on the grounds that it weighed 113 grams, and thus that extra 13 might have been treacherous.
Sure. If the container is that dangerous, then why do they hand them out on the flight in the first place? The danger from the container ought to be the same if I bring onto the flight or if I get it from stewardess.
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Oh, won't someone please think of the children.
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Unfortunately I'm fairly sure that the TSA doesn't take well to mocking their policy.
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However, you may take as much KY jelly as you want. I will refrain from making the obvious comment.
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It's the tube.
If it's too big, you could mix explosives in it.
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suzanne