Airline security

firkin

firkin

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No doubt y'all have heard some of the debates about whether the emphasis on screening passengers and their checked baggage while ignoring other items shipped via air is the way to go, specially since it is to be expected that smart terrorists wouldn't try the same thing twice.

I present this article for your evaluation. In earlier times, it would be amusing. Sad really.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3095592.stm


If nothing else, one can wonder at the assertion that Mr McKinley's poor selection of mode of travel was equal in cost to a first class ticket in a passenger aircraft, though it is true that he didn't pony up for his flight, his employer unwittingly did.
 
Suppose ol' bin laden could have shipped himself around like that too! Maybe under the guise, bin lading.
 
Charging the youg man with Stowaway sounds a bit foolish. Someone paid for the young man to get on the aircraft, even if it was in a box. It sounds to me like they are making up their rules as they go along.:)
 
I agree, Pappy. I think he embarrassed them so now they'll try to punish him out of spite.
 
I'll add a couple of things now.

1) I think thhat Pappy and raghorn are both right in this case.

2) The guy is a lucky SOB to be alive now. Maybe becuase he picked a flight that was shipping some live Maine lobsters instead of brake drums and other "just-in-time" industrial components.

3) So far they are (officially) holding him on pre-existing offenses. Perhaps under the current circumstances they are treating him differently than others accused of similar offenses.

4) Fortunately for the passenger-in-abox, Darwin and Murphy weren't working together on this one.

5) Somebody could have done the same thing with malicious intent, like carrying a bomb that they weren't smart enough to detonate by remote control.

What's the proper policy? I don't know. Does anyone? One thing I do know, is a box big enough for a man to live in for fifteen hours can house a lot more destructive potential than the bits of my freaking shoes that aren't obviously occupied by my feet.
 
this coulda easily been a suicide bomber with a hunk and a half of explosives. thinking of it in that light, *what a BIG freakin' hole in security*

I guess this guy is a prior felon or something, in either case he should be held for stupidity and given some kind of edjumakashun while in the slam. Lord knows he needs it. :rolleyes:

As far as passengers booking normal seats, the invasion of privacy and rediculousness of the whole scenario is too much. I vote with my wallet and will NOT fly. Non-criminals are treated like criminals (including disabled great-grandmothers and children) and i feel it's gone too far.

besides, if there were armed people on flights, hijackers could be defeated. Taking away any chance of a weapon from GOOD people, only gives the criminal more reassurance.
 
You surely done said a whole mouth full with that statement. They have gone completely overboard.:barf:
 
I agree with the quote that for the shipping fee of $550, he could have easily flown in comfort.

Keith
 
"I agree with the quote that for the shipping fee of $550, he could have easily flown in comfort."


Let's imagine a volume in a cargo aircraft that is indentical to that of the passenger compartment of a passenger plane. Surely more boxes the size and weight of the one the guy flew in can be packed into the space on the cargo aircraft than passengers that occupy the same space on a passenger craft. Plus no non-flightcrew or other ammenities are needed.

Why the same cost????

No wonder the airlines are always going broke.

Truely nuts.
 
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