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From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves &AElig umich.edu>
Subject: Re: water bottles on a plane
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The answer is:  NOTHING HAPPENED.
And yesterday I smuggled on a bottle of honey.
The only point here is that the TSA are idiots.

(There was a NYT article about this recently, talking about scientists 
experimenting with liquid explosives in the desert to assess the 
threat and determine reasonable volume limits (you can now take on 
containers of up to 90mL or something) but never mentioning the 
fundamental problem that the ban is utterly unenforceable.)


--- \/   FROM Kevin Lochner AT 06.09.21 14:38 (Sep 21)   \/ ---

> assuming that they caught it (otherwise what's the point of telling the 
> story) and knowing dan . . . security caught him, he protested the 
> ridiculousness of the ban, and they let him bring the bottle through.
>
> Either that, or he was brought into interrogation of some sort (matt's (c))
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Matt Rudary wrote:
>
>> A. Nothing happened.
>> B. The security folks caught you and laughed.
>> C. The security folks caught you, and you got arrested for being a 
>> smartass.
>> 
>> I'm guessing A, because if it were C I don't think I'd have heard about it 
>> this way and B seems unlikely because airport security doesn't seem to have 
>> a sense of humor.
>> 
>> Daniel Reeves wrote:
>>> Just to see how far I could push it (last trip a camelbak -- triathlon 
>>> style hydration thing -- full of water made it through) I tried a bottle 
>>> of gatorade in my shorts, big enough that it looked like I was limping 
>>> (though I did my best to conceal it).
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Go ahead, place your bets as to what happened.  I won't tell you until I 
>>> get a sufficient number of replies.
>>> 
>> 
>

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