Air travel is about to get crazier.
“Passenger [sheep] Doreen says she trusts authorities to do whatever it takes to prevent mid-air tragedies, including banning cameras and cell phones from aircraft cabins.” - CJME.com
Stephen Harper, in retaliation against the blogosphere for criticizing him for getting a pilot fired when the captain asked Harper to put away his cell phone for the flight, is making sure no blogger gets pictures on a plane, or any other person gets to keep their cell phone. Take that Free Canada! How did we get from being concerned about box cutters and radical Arabs, to bottles of water and cell phones? I guess we took a hop, skip and a jump from laser pointers and shoes. I still say that next the airlines will ban clothing because it can be burned. But wait! So can hair… full body shave before you get on Air Canada?
I say it’s only 10 years away from them sedating all passengers just like on the movie “5th Element” spaceships. Sleep walkers banned from flying! Embrace your new water bottle stealing overlords, so you can fly comfortably knowing that any hijacker ninja will be just as dehydrated as you are.
I’ve written recently about the recent insanity on the airlines.
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CfSR | 14-Aug-06 at 7:12 pm | Permalink
As someone who travelled frequently in a previous job and carried all of the communications toys, I can live with having to check them in my suitcase.
If there is a legitimate, even relatively remote, threat that such equipment can be used to detonate a bomb as a carry on, make me check it.
My boss is going to have to learn that flying time is NOT work time.
I can live with that.
I hope one day, tho, to have a book or a newspaper.
Even better, A book and a newspaper.
talk talk talk | 14-Aug-06 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
I understand the liquids (can hide liquid explosives) and electronics (can detonate said explosives) but books? That one I don’t get. Are they considered fuel? But then ultimately everything is fuel on a plane.
Saskboy | 14-Aug-06 at 8:29 pm | Permalink
Exactly TTT, anything is fuel. A more valid restriction is cell phones because they always contain an explosive part, whereas liquids are most often benign. CfSR, I agree that some jobs are vampires, but we don’t have to give up any more conveniences to be secure on an airplane.
It’s most likely they won’t allow anything onboard except people with clothes, and a wallet, passport, and medical/baby supplies. They’ll sell you a USB keyboard to work with the screen/computer in the seat, and you can read Fox News and CNN on their stale or satellite Internet feed. Planes still will be bombed through a different means, or maybe terrorists will stop going after the hardended target and reailze there is a line of captive people in an airport, and you can just drive right up… like duh?