BoingBoing has an interesting post from a couple of days ago. What, you ask, are the airport security people doing with the liquids they confiscate? Why, they’re dumping them into big bins, that’s what they’re doing.
Does anyone else see the problem with this?
If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?
xopl asks a fair question:So CNN is reporting: “Because the plot involved taking liquid explosives aboard planes in carry-ons, passengers at all U.S. and British airports, and those boarding U.S.-bound flights at other international airports, are banned from taking any liquids onto planes.”And then they have the photo of the TSA guy dumping a tub of confiscated possibly explosive liquids into a garbage can in a crowd of people.
Figure that shit out for me.
Reader comments:
Gabe says
And check out this article from Asheville, NC. “Maya Leoni, who is held by Angela Perez, cries as her mother, A.J. Leoni, pours the last of her drink into the receptacle while in line for the security checkpoint at the Asheville Regional Airport.”POUR IT INTO A RECEPTACLE? Don’t you think that some of these potentially explosive liquids might be more dangerous when, I don’t know, mixed in a big vat in the middle of an airport?
Christ, why don’t they just have people put their liquids into a big bonfire?
May one respectfully suggest that, if they really believed people were bringing poisons and explosive chemicals onboard, to mix for activation, that mixing them in a big open bin in the middle of the passenger screening area is, perhaps, not the most efficient way to dispose of said liquids?
They may be this stupid, but even I don’t really think so.
In related news:
The latest theory is that, rather than an explosive, the bombers may have been set up to make hydrogen cyanide, cyanide gas. It’s easy enough; even I can do it. It would effectively kill everyone in the cabin fairly quickly (and painfully). Not quite the explosive destruct-o-con that the British and American governments led us to believe, with potential casualty estimates of up to 300,FUCKING,000. Reality check, people.
raincoaster 
Terrific cauldron pic! Tell me, RC–where’d you get it? The Onion or somewhere?
[:-)
GMTA. I didn’t even check your blog till after I posted it.
We at the raincoaster blog have a firm policy of stealing all images from Google Image search.
FSD, too. What search terms brought us to this image within hours of one another?
I was just looking for a cauldron.
I just typed in “Cauldron” and I at least didn’t make the mistake of attributing it to the Onion ferchrissakes.
Flippin’ ‘ell! Just let it go, already. This is some sort of soul wound for you isn’t it?
Pesrsonally methinks she doth protest a good deal too much. While I’m certain you’re well above any sort of plagiaristic behaviour, you obviously visited my blog, and naturally when you needed a pic of your own … well perhaps you remembered a great pic you perhaps didn’t recall seeing elsewhere. But that’s okay. We’ve all done that sort of thing once in a while.
Well not me, obviously, but others have.
Next time you want to get all up on me for stealing an image from you, make sure I stole the image from you and next time you want to lord it over me about how you attribute your images, make sure you attribute them correctly. Wasn’t I just reading on your blog about how you always correct the record?
Ow.
Let it be publicly known that I intended on having a little fun with this and that I do not intend that your Gentle Readers should in any way take it seriously.
I apologize for any misunderstanding.
NOW you see why I am always trying to entice the nony attackers over here? So I can lay the smackdown on them without any worries about pooping all over someone else’s blog.
Bang, bang, bang. Gotcha.
When I saw you lay it at the Onion’s feet, I knew you were roadkill. Heh heh.
*Looks down nose at you, maintaining dignified silence.*