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While the Department of Homeland Security is enforcing a no-carry-on-liquids ban for the safety of airline passengers, some desperate people are thinking of ways around it. Namely women who cannot lie without their cosmetics. CNN reported that a woman embarking on an 18 hour flight sneaked her lip balm on her plane via a candy bar wrapper. And to that, we just shake our heads. The NY Post interviews female travelers who wish they could have their beauty aids but generally understand they have to do without creams, facial sprays, and make-up if they want to get on their flights. At least travelers in the US get to bring their laptops, iPods, and other gadgets on flights - in Britiain, you can't even bring a newspaper on the plane! (They can be checked in, natch - let's hope that the TSA workers don't take anything.) Certainly, this screws things up for duty-free retailers, but it's probably a boon for book sellers and local convenience stores near airports for people to stock back up on their liquid necessities. But while we love our lip balm, hand lotion (planes are so drying - even three hour flights) and bottled water, we'll buck up and pack less. Will you?
The NYPD is ramping up its "Operation Nexus," which "tracks the chemicals the terror plotters had planned to use", namely hydrogen peroxide and acetone. But what do we make of the Department of Homeland Security? There's a NY Times article that says the DHS's "obsessive focus on previous attacks may have prevented the federal government from combating new threats effectively" according to some experts.
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I was planning on doing something aimilar - smearing some lip balm between 2 pieces of plastic wrap...
BFD. I usually get around....everywhere...without carrying liquid or any viscous substance with me.
Or a cell phone, IPod, blackberry for that matter.
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The whole business of forbidding lip balm and hand lotion is silly and draconion. If someone wants to blow up a plane, they'll find a way, and it won't involve chapstick...
I'm hoping that sooon they will relax and allow factory sealed beverages on the plane or I am going to be one cranky bitch on a 5hr flight and little hydration.
This'll be great for the airlines. Flight attendants can sell bottles of water for $5 each.
Thank you for flying Hannibal Lector Airlines. The flight attendnts will unstrap you in a few minutes. Please drop off your muzzle and straight-jacket as you leave the plane.
holy crap. an 8 hr flight with no lipbalm. my lips are gonna be like the sahara. seriously, i freaking hate flying and try to make it as tolerable as possible. now with no makeup, water, snacks, books, lipbalm, ipod, it's gonna be freaking painful. wait a sec - what if a woman has her period? are tampons banned too?
also, i take something to help me sleep on overnight flights. looks like that is over too. urgh. i just realized no ear plugs either.
I'd fill my ears with lip balm and dip in whenever necessary, leaving enough to block out the sound. How's that for a solution?
But seriously, if a terrorists hides stuff in a body cavity, how will they find it? If chapstick is suspect, then surely a chapstick sized big of plastic or gel-based explosive can be hidden inside a generous butt-crack? Imagine the ideas a dedicated terrorist can come up with!
I once had a kilt-pin confiscated before boarding a 10-passenger flight to Maine. A man who heard me get upset about it (it was Jean-Paul Gaultier pin I'd had for 10 years!), showed me his expensive, high-tech pen, which could have easily been used to hurt someone. And he got it on the plane, because it was a pen, not a pin.
These regulations are time-wasters, and not efficient. The FAA needs to either totally ban EVERYTHING, and pass out paper jumpsuits to naked passengers whose body cavities have been inspected, or get smarter!
in all seriousness, the lip balm in the ear is not a half bad idea