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camwyn ([personal profile] camwyn) wrote2005-07-22 08:47 am

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So.

New York City's gonna do random searches of people's bags if they wanna get on the subway and 'people who don't want to be searched are perfectly free to turn around and leave the station'.

Show of hands- do I start carrying a bag full of mousetraps, or should I start carrying a bag full of some formulation of Play-Doh that feels like dog crap if a cop puts his hand on it? Not that I dislike the members of the NYPD; I'm very fond of cops in general. But since the city doesn't seem to think that the Constitution matters any more (small surprise, since Washington doesn't either)- or that this constitutes a reasonable search and seizure- I'd like to make it plain that if you're going to search me, ever, you are going to have to pay for that privilege.

I'm thinkin' the play-doh. Or a can of non-dairy creamer with a lid that comes off easily- no, then they'd go "ACK ANTHRAX" and I'd be late for work. But you get the idea.

Suggestions?

[identity profile] lwood.livejournal.com 2005-07-23 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
The cord bit on the Addi Turbos looks rather more like steel cable than a simple bit of nylon -- and my trusty #7's have nice, long, similarly steel pointy bits.

A wooden pair of #15's is a handy stake for any Slayer/knitters there might ever have been.

But... really... Addi turbos should be considered a deadly weapon by the idjits who confiscate corkscrews.

-- Lorrie

[identity profile] zsero.livejournal.com 2005-07-24 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
They don't, any more. That is, the TSA took corkscrews off the banned list about 2 years ago. And the corkscrew promptly went back into my going-to-cons bag.

That's in the USA, of course; other countries have their own standards. E.g., 3 years ago the Australian security people were not allowing duck tape onto planes. Really. I had my roll of duck tape taken from me, and put in a plastic bag and thrown in with the checked luggage, to be given back to me on the other end. (Which is better than what TSA does with confiscated items here, of course.)