TSA FINALLY ACHIEVES STUPIDITY SINGULARITY

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ITEM [via Schneier]: Airline pilot Patrick Smith – author of the excellent and highly recommended “Ask The Pilot” column in Salon – is prevented from bringing a knife on the plane he is about to fly.

The punch line: it’s the exact same type of knife that flight attendants will be handing out to first/business class passengers during the flight.

Actual dialogue:

"No serrated knives. You can't take this."
"But sir, how can it not be allowed when it's the same knife they give you on the plane!"
"Those are the rules."
"That's impossible. Can I please speak to a supervisor?"
"I am the supervisor."
"Come on. The purpose of confiscating knives is to keep people from bringing them onto planes, right? But every person on my flight was legally handed one of these knives with their meals. How can you ... I mean ... it just ... At least admit to me that it's a dumb rule."
"It's not a dumb rule."
"Yes, it is."
"No, it isn't."

You see the problem here.

There are probably dumber stories out there, but this story highlights just how mindlessly and needlessly stupid airport security has come. And according to Smith, it’s not going to get any better. Read the whole thing to find out why.

FUN FACT: George Carlin reached the same conclusion. BEFORE 9/11.

Packing my bags myself,

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