Lighters now banned on U.S. flights (9)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-14 13:43 ID:WiWZzx+w

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/04/14/bt.lighter.ban.ap/
unlike guns, knives and other dangerous items that can't be carried on a plane but may be stowed in checked bags, lighters are banned from any portion of an aircraft.

The genesis for the ban was Richard Reid, who tried unsuccessfully to light explosives hidden in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2002. He usedmatch es. The authors of the ban, Democratic Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Ron Wyden of Oregon, worried that a lighter might have worked.

The ban does not include matches; passengers still may carry up to four books of safety matches onto a plane

2 Name: 返信 2005-04-14 20:46 ID:vmxAr/IS

> Lighters now banned on U.S. flights
> The ban does not include matches

lighter = fire
matches = fire

discuss

3 Name: Unverified Source 2005-04-27 04:58 ID:EbTss2rF

Lighters contain lighter fluid or butane, which provide much more bang than sulphur-head matches. Lighters also emit no smoke, so they're more difficult to notice when in use.

4 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-04-27 13:51 ID:MlxmYmtB

Somehow it seems that it doesn't really matter all that much if someone notices that you just lit a 3-second fuse on your shoe bomb.

5 Name: Unverified Source 2005-05-02 00:59 ID:EbTss2rF

Anybody dumb enough to try to hijack or bomb commercial aircraft nowadays deserve to lose. If I catch someone trying I will personally be happy to kill them, because they've made my travel life a living hell. And you know what, that makes me even less sympathetic to any sort of cause that might be their motivation. Hijackers and suicide bombers are all fucktards and asshats just because they've fucked up the travel world. And the unfortunate thing is that's exactly what they want, to piss people off. They remind me of teenage boys who start fights just because they want someone to be angry at them, to actually give a shit about their opinions.

6 Name: Unverified Source 2005-05-02 09:55 ID:Heaven

Did >>5 just accuse terrorists of trolling?

7 Name: Unverified Source 2005-05-06 23:48 ID:EbTss2rF

>>6
Looks like it. Isn't that what they do, though? Commit vile acts of terror to piss people off so they pay attention to some group's social or political plight? That does seem to be trolling, although not in a funny way.

8 Name: Unverified Source 2005-05-08 13:14 ID:Heaven

>>7
I guess I've come to think of trolls as "frustrating, but essentially harmless". Perhaps mistakenly...

9 Name: Unverified Source 2005-05-10 14:01 ID:ybPBkaSZ

Trolls = Terrorists of the Interbutt.

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