From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:18:50 -0800 (PST)
To: "C. Kuethe" <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Re: Airport security [no such thing]
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970115232022.006cb5a8@192.100.81.126>
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At 11:11 PM 1/15/97 -0700, C. Kuethe wrote:
>Yeah... took the words outta my mouth.  Let's all write to the FAA, DOT, etc.
>and tell them what morons they are...  sorry tell them that they need
work. No
>more Lockerbies, TWA800's and other such tragedies.

Write them? Why? How are they going to prevent someone from boarding with a
bottle of aftershave containing the extra strong flavor? A bottle that will
be left in the seat? One could cut open the seat if need be. [Dozens of
other examples omitted in the interest of brevity.]



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