It just gets nuttier...

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Words fail me.

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Pastorio

Damn, does this mean I have to give up my katana? 🙂

Jill

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Is this for real? How the heck .... ??

Carol

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Pastorio

While they are at it, ban baseball bats.......

and motor vehicles. ;-)
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Sprout the MungBean to reply

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell‹you
see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

In the US, it'd be because of all the lawyers.

Are you folks up to your ears in litigious solicitors?

OTOH, a lady who had a butcher knife in her purse made it through
airport security. She said she forgot she'd put it in the previous
night on her way to meet a blind date.

The security personnel are being retrained....

maxine in ri

pennyaline said:

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Words fail me.

Not me ;-)

Obviously, these idiots don't realize that you don't need a "long,
pointed" knife to stab someone fatally - airlines won't even allow a
2-inch blade on board. Maybe this group just wanted some publicity.

N.

Quoted message said:

pennyaline said:

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Words fail me.

Not me ;-)

Obviously, these idiots don't realize that you don't need a "long,
pointed" knife to stab someone fatally - airlines won't even allow a
2-inch blade on board. Maybe this group just wanted some publicity.

N.

Exactly! Or a scalpel for that matter, think of the damage that does, in
the wrong hands. Are they gonna ban those next?
Cathy

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

pennyaline said:

Bob (this one) wrote:

>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Words fail me.

Not me ;-)

Obviously, these idiots don't realize that you don't need a "long,
pointed" knife to stab someone fatally - airlines won't even allow a
2-inch blade on board. Maybe this group just wanted some publicity.

N.

Exactly! Or a scalpel for that matter, think of the damage that does, in
the wrong hands. Are they gonna ban those next?
Cathy

And then there are box cutters...... :-(
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see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

Bob (this one) said:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26196720.htm

Pastorio

That is good news! The next step will be the introduction of a licensing
system for knives. Besides providing additional jobs for a couple of
thousands of civil servants required to administer this process, people
will have to provide some form of proof that they are capable of
handling large kitchen knives. As the primary use of these knives will
be related to cooking, one of the first documents that comes to mind
would be a certificate that one has successfully completed a cooking
course, similar to the requirement of having completed a firearms
competency course before applying for a gun license.

The net effect would be a lot of Brits going for cooking courses, and
given the current standard of British cooking, that can only be an
improvement.

Along the same lines, maybe they should set up a similar system for the
sale of hammers over a certain weight, capable of causing permanent
damage to the skull. No builders certificate (and union membership
card), no hammer. Exceptions could be made for holders of certain
cooking diploma's, who can defend the use of the instrument as a
tenderising hammer.

On 27 May 2005 07:22:58 -0700, "maxine in ri" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In the US, it'd be because of all the lawyers.

Are you folks up to your ears in litigious solicitors?

OTOH, a lady who had a butcher knife in her purse made it through
airport security. She said she forgot she'd put it in the previous
night on her way to meet a blind date.

The security personnel are being retrained....

Oh, I shouldn't worry. Airline security is going to be much better
soon. Didn't you hear? They're instituting what amounts to manditory
strip searches of all passengers. Take a look at this....

http://www.freedomisslavery.info/index.php?p=1138

It is, after all, so much cheaper than just putting locking,
bulletproof doors on the cockpits and air marshalls on board.

Regards,
Tracy R. <==never flying again, I swear, and it's not because I'm
worried about terrorists or crashes

maxine in ri said:

OTOH, a lady who had a butcher knife in her purse made it through
airport security. She said she forgot she'd put it in the previous
night on her way to meet a blind date.

The security personnel are being retrained....

Retrained? They should have been fired on the spot.

Carol

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