UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners

Post by HeckFeck » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

dtech wrote: post #16

locallost wrote: post #12

I flew yesterday and in the plane realized I had some water from my daughter in the backpack. It was scanned and missed of course. And why wouldn't they miss it, it's a waste of time anyway. But at least they harassed a 3-year old to stand in a certain way to get scanned and fail at it. Unrelated, but I've come to believe it's a form of social welfare. So much policing for nothing, not just airports, wars on drugs et…

The term you're looking for is security theatre

Post by twelve40 » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

navhc wrote: post #139

antiterra wrote: post #130

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“We can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got mace or something.” “Nobody knows who stabbed who, and we can't even get up to business class right now 'cause nobody can breathe.” - Betty Ong, Flight 11 Not necessarily explosive, but tactical chemical attacks have been a known capability for a while, and part of anti-terrorist training long before 2001. Something truly sophisticated from a superpower state would…

There are non-liquid chemical attacks that could be facilitated from something like anthrax to powdered pepper spray. Disallowing liquids does nothing to stop those

Post by actionfromafar » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 2:20 PM UTC

0xDEF wrote: post #32

mdrachuk wrote: post #23

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There also wasn’t a 9/11 before the 9/11.

There were dozens of terror attacks against air travel in the 80s and 90s. The global post-9/11 "security theater" did make flying in the developing world much safer.

  - before 9/11, the advice was: sit down in your seat and wait for the ransom demands

  - after 9/11: fight for your life now or die in a blaze of fire

Post by BeFlatXIII » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 2:20 PM UTC

tgv wrote: post #148

seszett wrote: post #17

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First rule at Ben Gurion is "don't be Arab" though. So maybe their "alternative approach" works for you, but it does have some downsides.

Or be a tall, blonde Western European with a suspicious stamp in your passport. They'll question you at length and open your photo camera, film roll or not. The stamp was from Qatar or UAE, can't remember.

Post by Auracle » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 2:23 PM UTC

Arch-TK wrote: post #47

Recently at Stansted I had an encounter with a security staff member who was of the opinion that both clotted cream and butter were liquids. (Note, I wasn't the one trying to get either of these onto the plane.) Her entire argument seemed to rest on the case that they were spreadable. I don't think she did well in GCSE physics.