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more on sorry Congress may try retain airliner "scissors" ban
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 12:21:17 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan () zen org> Date: December 3, 2005 10:21:15 AM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] more on sorry Congress may try retain airliner "scissors" ban
Some sharp sewing scissors could do serious damage to people - they could scare some people good enough to think freddy kreuger was on the plane.
More times than I can count, I've seen (mostly) ladies sitting in their airplane seat, relaxing not with a book or music or a movie, but instead a nice bit of knitting. No Swiss Cards, no scissors, no pocket knives, but knitting needles are okay? For the paranoid, they'd be able to get through your eye and into your brain even easier than the now-plastic knives they give you for your safety while dining. But at least our in-bred fear of every object that exists in an airplane cabin hasn't reached too much hysteria just yet. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee has a great description of this sort of thing from the perspective of the needle-weilding terrorist and their 14" aluminum weapons of minimal destruction: http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2005/10/03/weenies.html My favorite part is towards the end, where you see that if she'd wanted to, she could seemingly have socially engineered herself right into the damn cockpit. :-) B ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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