Terrorism 1 / Democracy 0
If you're travelling around Europe, you should avoid London Heathrow like the black plague. That airport is a complete debacle. I only stopped thru there for a connecting flight and was stuck through their JOKE idea of security for 2 hours! The first 1.5 hours was waiting on a line that consisted of people asking security officers if their bottle of lotion/makeup case/contact lens solution was allowed on the plane or not. Then for some stupid reason, security was forcing everybody to condense all their bags into one bag. But they didn't let people by who only had one bag...LIKE ME. So you just sit there and watch these people trying to stuff an impossible amount of shit into one bag. And the reason for this?? It was so they claim "It'll be faster when you go thru the x-ray machine later." After that was the x-ray security machine line. Didn't seem any faster to me!
And guess what! I had toothpaste and water in my bag the entire time! SO NEWS FLASH FOR TERRORISTS, If you want to kill people on a plane with liquids, just keep ur mouth shut while going thru security and you'll be fine because the western worlds finest security systems have resorted to the motherfucking honor system!
After going thru security I was so tempted to reach into my bag and throw my bottle of water and toothpaste at the security officials and thank them for wasting my fucking time. Ugh.
I think the terrorists must be sitting in their caves laughing their asses off that we can't bring a 4oz bottle of cream on the plane now and its causing infuriating delays at the airport. They didn't have to kill anyone. They won. They've taken away the one thing democracy has blessed upon us: Convenience.
I hope one day Al Queda figures out how to make bombs out of panties and denim. Then our planes will be filled with passengers naked from the waist down.
posted by jeffstaple | 5:01 PM
8 Comments:
Fear sells.
I feel your pain jeff, they took my deodorant in munich, but i snuck my toothpaste through!
My mother was in London like 3 weeks ago. She said she spent about 20 minutes pleading with security at heathrow airport that if she wasnt allowed to take a 1oz dropper container on the plane it would possible result her having to get a cornia transplant. She has an eye condition where she has to put a saline solution in her eye's like 4 times day. They're absolute retards, what on earth are you going to do with 1oz liquid clearly mark as a sterile liquid, but security apparently thought giving a 50+ year old woman the 5th degree was great idea...
Welcome to my hood jeff...Trust me this British ineptitude is not confined to the airports.
My parents just came from vacation a month ago and they describe their time at Heathrow as the worst. Mom dukes was mad because they tossed her expensive makeup. Even old folks cant enjoy their vacation these days. We need to rethink our strategies as far as screening and security measures.
Yea, It's crazy.
Did you see this architect getting nailed at 33 000 feet for having a tan and reaching for his Ipod?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1777847.ece
that's why teleportation needs to be invented!!
I work as cabin crew for emirates airlines....I know the pain because the majority of the time, when flyin out of heathrow, we bear the brunt of Heathrows incompetence. If theres one piece of advice I could give you, it would be to fly to Gatwick instead..
That being said...my money is earned by flying 40,000 feet in the air 100 hours a month. If a bottle of toothpaste endagers my life.. fuck it.. leave it at home.
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