Originally Posted by Epsomdog
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Originally Posted by deptrai
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for people to consider facts of a particular incident, as a long as the laws/rules are silly.
Flight attendants and passengers keep getting injured by heavy hand luggage falling out of overhead bins. This is a real, not an imaginary threat. Now what if someone intentionally swings their 15 kilo hardshell hand luggage at your head? Then there are the hundreds of glass bottles pax are carrying. Oxygen tanks and fire extinguishers could also make formidable weapons. The on-board cutlery, chopsticks, fire axes, etc etc, it's all well known. I'm not saying we should ban all that, just like I think it's (barely) fair to allow engineers on duty around the aircraft to have access to a spanner. How about if some malicious terrorist fuel truck driver would speed out onto a runway in just the wrong moment...can you imagine the disaster? But according to current rules, some yoghurt carried by a pilot is getting more attention. How many have actually been hurt by a yoghurt? Let's just face it, there are nonsensical elements in the ongoing "security charade". Knives or whatever, I put up with it and do my best to comply...but there is room for improvement, and I think that is a more interesting debate, in general, than to consider the facts of some particular case where someone got caught carrying something he/she shouldn't. Yawn.
I think this thread is going round in circles!
It seems like a fairly simple dilemma.
1. Do we need security rules and restrictions?
Assuming the answer is yes, then....
2. Should those rules and restrictions apply to everyone, equally?
My view is most certainly, YES to both! If you allow special exemptions then you create a loophole or weakness that can be exploited by any would be terrorist!
Well MY view is NO.... In light of the qoute that YOU pasted! ANYONE can, at ANTIME, f*** up an airliner... I am sick of the security BS that I have to go through just to board MY aeroplane... I have potentially 250 tonnes of explosive in my fuel tanks; and I have to remove my belt at 'security'?
You're just another sheep that's been brainwashed by the 'Ones in Charge'.