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Re: Airport security [no such thing]

At 11:11 PM 1/15/97 -0700, C. Kuethe wrote:
>Yeah... took the words outta my mouth.  Let's all write to the FAA, DOT, etc.
>and tell them what morons they are...  sorry tell them that they need
work. No
>more Lockerbies, TWA800's and other such tragedies.

Write them? Why? How are they going to prevent someone from boarding with a
bottle of aftershave containing the extra strong flavor? A bottle that will
be left in the seat? One could cut open the seat if need be. [Dozens of
other examples omitted in the interest of brevity.]



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