Re: [Leica] Re- new aviation rules

["Paul Jones" <nrg666@hotmail.com>]

A friend of mine travelled through Europe and the Middle East for 2 years,
for all this time he carried a small swiss army pocket knife in his carry on
luggage and was never asked about it once.


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From: "Tarek Charara" <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re- new aviation rules


> le 19.09.2001 20:33, Adam Bridge à abridge@mac.com a écrit :
>
> > I'm unwilling to give up "convenience" for the sake of a very very tiny
> > incremental increase in alleged security.
> >
> > If you wanted to have a "secure" flight you'd require that people strip,
> > wear airline provided coveralls, be shackled in their seats and full
body
> > x-rayed. In other words treated like carrying high-risk criminals.
> >
> > Clearly that extreme does not make sense.
> >
> > High heel shoes are weapons. Should they be banned?
> > Ball point pens?
> > Paper clips?
> > How about that little screw driver you use to adjust your glasses?
> > A metal cola can can be ripped to make a lethal edge.
>
> The security measures are mainly intended to calm the passengers. That's
all
> there is to it. If someone really wants to do something bad on board, he
> will find a way. A ceramic knife is easy to smuggle on board... A friend
of
> mine discovered that she had forgotten a rather big pocket knife in her
> handbag on a flight from Montreal to Paris last friday.... Security? What
> security???
>
> Tarek
>
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