On Aug 29, 5:09*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
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> > "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> >> "Gloria P" > wrote in message
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> >>> jmcquown wrote:
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> >>>> Agreed. *Unless you have absolutely horrid tap water there is no reason
> >>>> to buy botted water. *And there are plenty of container to carry it
> >>>> around in. However, since 9/11, in an airport you cannot bring your own
> >>>> water onto a plane. *They get to sell it to you, instead.
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> >>>> Jill
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> >>> Many (most?) airports let you carry an empty bottle through security
> >>> screening. *You can fill it when you get tot he gate area from a water
> >>> fountain. *Many times a restaurant will fill it for you from their water
> >>> supply *if you ask nicely.
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> >>> gloria p
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> >> You're talking about EMPTY bottles. *I'm talking about a bottle of water.
> >> I thought that was the topic.
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> >> Jill
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> > Jill, Gloria is talking the kit form... it's just as much a bottle of
> > water once the empty bottle is filled with water... do you really believe
> > that the bottled water companies pick already filled bottles of water off
> > trees, they fill their bottles too. duh
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> No, Sheldon. *I'm talking I couldn't take an already *filled* bottle of
> water through airport security. *The TSA acts like you're trying to take a
> container of nitro through security if the bottle is already filled; they
> won't let you do it. *Empty, they don't care about.
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> Jill

Airlines can't know what in your "water" in a non-commercially
prepared bottle of water, and they don't have the time or capability
of testing it, so they just disallow it and do allow commercially
prepared bottles of water.

Which leads immediately to another method of smuggling! If you can
dissolve something in "water" (or any clear liquid that won't dissolve
a commercially prepared botttled water bottle) and then put it IN a
commercially prepared bottled water bottle, and pretend it IS a bottle
of commercially prepared water, I'll bet you could glide right through
airport security with it!

John Kuthe...