Greg wrote:

> It still amazes me that thousands of weapons/restricted items per *month*
> are confiscated from people going through security. These include box
> cutters, guns, swords, you name it...

It amazes ME how inane some of those restrictions are. Nail clippers? Who's
going to hijack a plane with nail clippers?

I'm also surprised at some items which get through security: A friend of
mine routinely carries her stun gun onto planes and she's never even been
asked about it. And what about canes? Can't THEY be used as weapons? So why
are they allowed?

I also find it a bit dismaying how STUPID some of the security personnel
are. Here's an example: It's an elementary precaution not to put valuables
onto the conveyor belt unless you KNOW that you're going to be the next
person through the metal detector. There was a couple ahead of me who kept
setting off the metal detector. They weren't allowed to proceed, and the
line was halted. Yet the security boob working the conveyor belt tried to
browbeat me into putting my $4000 laptop (in those days) onto the conveyor
belt. I kept telling him that I wasn't going to put it onto the belt until
the couple ahead of me was all the way through, but he plainly couldn't
understand why I was refusing to eagerly comply with his instructions.

Bob