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Posted: 08.23.2002 It's about freakin' time
From CNN.com: "Airport passengers may not be asked much longer whether they packed their own bags and, starting right away, they will be allowed to take drinks through security checkpoints.
For the past 16 years, ticket agents have been required to ask passengers two security questions: 'Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry an item on this flight?' and 'Have any of the items you are traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them?' There is no hard evidence the queries have prevented a hijacking or bombing. Many passengers question the value of the questions, since anyone who had something to hide presumably would not answer honestly... ...The new policy requires plastic, glass, metal and ceramic containers to be sealed and put through the X-ray screening machine. An open can of soda won't be allowed through a checkpoint, but a bottle of soda with a sealable top will. Screeners are forbidden to ask passengers to eat food or drink a beverage as part of a security procedure. The policy was changed on June 24 after a woman said a security guard at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport forced her to drink from three bottles of her own breast milk to demonstrate the liquid posed no threat to other passengers."  On a flight two years ago coming home from Austin, TX to LAX, I was told to open a sealed bottle and drink from it just in case some one had injected something into it... This crap started way before 09-11-01. ¤ ¤ credit: Stephanie | 08.23.02 at 01:13 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Traveled last week and got wanded by a security guy...of course she asked me first, "may I have your permission to wand you" I felt like saying "sure, just don't tell my wife" or something. p ¤ ¤ credit: peat | 08.23.02 at 10:40 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I always thought the questions were stupid. What are you going to do ... say "yes"? Everyone just says no to the questions, whether it's the truth or not ¤ ¤ credit: Christine | 08.24.02 at 04:51 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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