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Jul. 22nd, 2005 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynSo.
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?
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?
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:27 am (UTC)2. The companies didn't choose to go all-no-smoking, they were forced to by the government. At least for domestic flights. For international flights, where the countries at both ends have banned smoking on domestic flights, I'm not sure whether they're allowed to allow smoking, but my guess is not, because if they were allowed to offer smoking flights, I'm sure there'd be enough demand for them, especially on the really long (10hr+) flights.
Then you have the airports that don't have smoking lounges. So someone gets off a flight, has a few hours' layover, and is going on to another long flight. They're going to need a smoke in between, and it seems to me that to get one their only option is to go outside the airport, and then come back through security. If they even can do that - what if they're transiting the country, with no visa to enter? Though, come to think of it, I believe the USA doesn't allow transit without a visa anyway, so at least that issue doesn't apply here. And countries that allow transit without visas probably have smoking lounges in the airport too.