Lot of dead people in an airport after someone with an ammonia based cleaner they have to dump out right after someone else had some bleach they had to pour out.
Ammonia cleaner + bleach = terror attack, noted.
If you drink that, urine trouble.
Is it a toilet?
Damnit now I have to dump all this bleach and chlorine
anybody wonder what they do with that jungle juice…? cause the soda machines are tastin’ kinda funky…
time to carry soda through a solid silver-colored cup that makes it look like the cup is made from metal
Sippin on that airport jungle juice
Too dangerous to allow a liter of liquid on a plane.
Let’s mix them all together in an airport where nothing bad can happen.
what if terrorists brought actual bomb juice and poured in in there and then just flicked a match into there and the whole fuckin airport blew up? things to think about when youre on your way to the airport.
Or something which acts like a catalyst to make all kinds of soda explosives! (I’m not a chemist, so please don’t judge me for this ridiculous statement)
oh woops i just dropped my family size roll of MENTOS in the jungle juice
Every time I’m at an airport I’m just struck at how much it’s changed since I was young.
In the olden days, it was like a big, clean bus station, people were free and happy and kids were running around, no barriers or guardrails anywhere. Now it feels like a funeral procession getting on a plane with the amount of searching and scanning and poking and prodding and massive walls of rules being posted about what you can’t do or say and one-way labyrinths of security hell.
yep pretty much it.
And you could even smoke on the plane
Okay, some things have improved.
The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.
It’s not “too dangerous to allow liquid on a plane”. It’s “we can’t detect explosives in your luggage if there are also liquids in it”.
Why can’t the liquid be allowed on the plane after the rest of your luggage is scanned then?
That doesn’t make sense. If that was the only reason, it would be easier and safer to just get people to take their liquid, in its container, out of the bag at scanning time
Agree, but security theater is more important, clearly.
I thought that somebody could sneak a explosive liquid into a plane via cup or bottle, and that the liquid could look so much like coffee or water or fuckin diet Pepsi that the security people were like “nah bro we aren’t gonna test it”.
My dad worked at Gatwick Airport as a cleaner in the 70s when he was a teenager. His first week there, a woman drops a duty free bag with a bottle of booze in it and he rushes over to clean it up. He’s just about to put the bag, full of liquid booze and broken glass, in the bin when one of the senior porters stops him and tells him to bring it in the back. Turns out they had a filtration system in the break room for this exact scenario. They’d pour the booze out of the plastic bag and through a sieve that would collect all the broken glass, it would all go into a big container at the bottom and voila, free booze! They offered my dad some, but he declined. Anyway, I guess if you were working at Gatwick in the 70s you could have had a chance to drink some airport jungle juice, you’d just need to be brave enough.
who brings booze into an airport?!
The duty free bag implies it was purchased at the airport.
I so want this to be real and not real at the same time
Look… We don’t allow liquids cause they may be explosive, so put your possible explosive with all these other potential explosives in the busiest and most congested and concentrated area of this airport…i think I may of found a flaw in this plan
see comment further up
The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.
It’s not “we don’t allow liquids cause they may be explosive”. It’s “we don’t allow liquids cause if you have any in your luggage, we won’t be able to correctly detect explosives you might also have”.
That’s why some airports now allow liquids. Newer scanners can detect explosives even in luggages that also contain liquids.
Nobody thinks your bottle of water is dangerous. But your bottle of water will prevent the explosives detector from working.
Why does the bottle of water have to be scanned with the rest of your luggage? Could it not simply be separated from the rest of your luggage?
I was looking at the rules recently and it said to put all your liquids in 1 zip lock bag. Presumably this would be so the bag could be removed and checked separately? If not what is the point? And why limit the amounts of particular fluids? None of this makes sense with the explosive detector explanation. But I haven’t flown for 20 years so wtf do I know?
If there ever was proof the TSA is a clown show security theater it’s in this bin. Too bad it’s never going away because the average citizen simply doesn’t care and no administration wants to be responsible for making a bunch of poorly educated government employees lose their jobs.
no administration wants to be responsible for making a bunch of poorly educated government employees lose their jobs
DOGE?
Well I wouldn’t say no administration is above the responsibility of making a bunch of government employees lose their jobs.
But if that’s before the checks then you’d get that far just having a bomb under your jacket anyway. The liquid thing is to prevent you from blowing up planes and shit that comes after the check
Presumably the liquid explosives aren’t going to explode when diluted with loads of water and energy drink
What if I made a chemical that explodes in contact with that mix, check mate buddy
Well be the change you want to see.
May of what? “May have” and not “may of”.
1997
“Bomb juice”
It’s always been theater.
I feel like their job is to stop people from blowing up terminals and planes. They literally can’t stop terrorism on the public side of the gate. They have no means.
they have no means
TSA anal probing everyone in a 10 mile radius around an airport
gay people be linin’ up (I can say this because im gay)
Fuckin Logan Airport won’t sell you a beer before noon. Goddamn bullshit puritan laws
It also frustrates me how restaurants in international airports only follow the local “meal schedule.” If everyone were in the same timezone all day, then okay, I can see why you’d only offer breakfast before 10am. But that isn’t the case in an international airport. Why are all the dinner places closed? (Rhetorical question - I know the answer is “$$$”)
But if you’ve been flying for hours, jetlagged from changing timezones, and you still need to catch a connecting flight, you may be ready for dinner/supper. It sucks when you want a more substantial meal, but the only options are eggy breakfast sandwiches and doughnuts.
It just makes more sense to offer options for any time of day in a place that’s open 24 hours, where you know the people you intend to serve will be on different meal schedules from what the locals might follow.
And that includes allowing people to buy/drink beer. But alas, those damn blue laws supersede all of that.
My little middle of nowhere airport will serve you before noon but damn you if you want a smoke or anything outside
You should fly through the Milwaukee airport some time. It’s the only airport I’ve ever been to that just had beer carts everywhere, and you can just carry a beer with you throughout the entire airport. There are bins by each jetway where they make you throw your beer out before you can board. It’s wild.
Flying out of Madison recently I saw so many people bringing cases of Spotted Cow as their stowed carry-on. There’s a store right by the gate with a pile of cases for exactly this purpose of course
“We do this to to remove all the explosive fluids”
And have it dumped and mixed there? Smart. Can’t go wrong.
And then, being the law abiding citizen, I tried to relinquish my explosive fluids… Turns out they didn’t mean diarrhea. I think I made several lists that day, not sure which though.
And completely ignore the drugs I forgot to take out of my bag
-_-
I love the one time they didn’t like the hard drive expansion bay with vents in my laptop but decided it’s okay because it can’t be opened by hand but didn’t care about the screwdrivers in my carry-on bag that I forgot about which would allow me to access the expansion bay in flight if desired
I think k putting all the explosives together in one big container is a better idea than collecting Al the drugs
What if someone brought a cleaner and a cleanser? Does the TSA really want those two mixed right there?
I feel like putting a Mentos in there.
show the tsa who’s the real liquid-emptier
Drop a box of baking soda in there, you’ll be through that TSA line in a jiffy.
