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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 09:36 AM

    Hey dummy! You obviously can't take a KNIFE on a plane!

    If you can't take a freaking shampoo bottle on the plane, what makes you think they'll let you pass with a KNIFE! Granted, they miss this stuff all the time, but come on, you really think a security guard will let you do that now?

    In the completely rare case you did attack somebody with the knife on the plane, you think that security guard is going to have a job anymore? Even if they do have the exact same silverware on the plane, its that security guards ass on the line. Use whats on the plane just like everyone else.

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