Dan wants help adopting a cute puppy that looks like a baby chomps. Aww…
Via Crypto-Grams, I found this list pictures of concealable weapons for airport screeners to look for. My first reaction was, “Damn! I gots to get me some of these!” My other was that there is no way a screener could stop some of these from being sneaked in. The only solution may be to sneak in a weapon of your own to fight back! (NOTE: IMAO or it’s subsidiaries – of which there are none – do not condone or recommend sneaking weapons onto airlines. Only do so if advised by your lawyer or a lawyery looking person.)
Thanks for the advice on buying computer parts. To the one who recommended getting a MAC, the people at red vs. blue (Yay! I can watch season 2 without squinting with my new monitor!) has a good response to that with this hilarious parody of those Mac commercials they use to run.
Whoa, those were some cool knives. Too bad they don’t tell you where you can buy them.
Well I never!! What clever little knives they have! Who’d have thunk it?
Funny thing is, I own one of the knives they featured: the all-plastic one that couldn’t in any way be mistaken for anything other than a knife.
Of course, that knife just lives under my pillow; it has never been anywhere close to an airport (let alone tried to sneak onto an air plane…)
I never thought of lettuce knives as a potential lethal weapon before, though…
i defy someone with these “knives” to try and do harm while i’m onboard. it would take theses knives and more to stop me from beheading my own little terrorist. christ, i’ve cut myself worse shaving than the damage these things could inflict. i might die from the wounds but i’d get me some before i did. i guarantee.
Those concealable weapons look kind of cool, until you read this article:
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS
Read the article “Terror in the Skies, Again?”
Look on p.32 of that weapons list, then read the identifier at the bottom; the cartridge knife looks like a pistol cartridge (.45 Colt most likely), and has a headstamp that says “30-06 Springfield.”
Alright, so…
1)Why in the blue hell would you take a knife, which looks like a cartridge (that’s a no-no) into an airport in the first place?
2)The mislabeled case is another giveaway, if the security agent is at all familiar with firearms.
3)Assuming the cartridge knife made it past security, what are you going to do with it? It’s not like cartridge cases have checkered grips, and the knife doesn’t appear to be lockback, so you have a very small blade which cannot be locked in place, which you hold on to by a slick metal case.
Another “WTF” candidate is the silver dollar keychain knife, with two small fold-out blades. And don’t get me started on the crucifix knife.
Oh yeah, cute puppy.
I think that concealed weapon list is just silly. It seems to be divided into two categories; weapons that aren’t that dangerous and couldn’t cut through an airline seat cushion, and non-ferrous/low detection probability weapons that are invisible unless the carrier is patted down. We should take the sensible route and strip search every Arab male. Period.
I look at the concealed weapons stuff and I wonder how much damage a terrorist might do with a hefty wooden 12-inch ruler complete with sharpen brass edge?
At least in some of those pictures the ruler seems to be the more dangerous implement. The thing with the folding nail file and scissors, for instance, seems to me to be an ineffective weapon to intimidate on any reasonably healthy stewardess with a feisty attitude and a caraffe of hot coffee. On the other hand, rap her acrosst the knuckles or backside with one of those rulers and you’d have her begging and whimpering for —
Oh, that’s only in British porn movies?
Nevermind.