Re: First class and free drinks

[Peter Kosinar <goober () nuf ksp sk>]

> >  I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something
> >  that you can only foil by upgrading the passengers to first
> >  class and giving them free drinks.
>
> (which is probably going for most reblogged/retweeted security phrase right about
> now):
>
> Why not?  This makes a lot of sense.  Islamic terrorists wouldn't drink, 
> right?  So turning down free drinks identifies them.  Of course, you'd 
> get a lot of false positives out of the teetotalers, like me.  So, you 
> put them all up front in first class, where there are more staff per 
> passenger, in order to keep an eye on them. If you keep checking to see 
> if there is anything they need, then they have no time to do whatever 
> they need to do in order to set off the Destructive Depends.

A more sophisticated approach to finding terrorists has been proposed 
quite some time ago:
http://mindofmog.net/archives/2003/02/21/patriotic-duty/

Maybe those two ideas could be combined for even greater effect?

Peter
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