Sigh. Security theater continues, despite layoffs of actors
TSA is going to lift the ban on small knives (2.36″ or less – who came up with that measurement??) that don’t lock and aren’t fixed blade, but they are still not allowing box cutters.
I can do more damage with a box cutter than with a 2″ knife? Really? I guess maybe I haven’t ever used a box cutter with a 2″ blade that wouldn’t snap right off if extended that far out.
Oh, and they are going to allow whiffle ball bats. If they’d only ask the guys I know, they’d keep those things banned. Obviously these people have never been on the receiving end of a whiffle bat beatdown. I have it on good authority that they hurt like a bitch.
Rather than lifting bits and pieces of the restrictions in a haphazard manner, I’d rather they just let me keep my shoes on and got rid of the frisking of toddlers in wheelchairs. I’d much prefer they were all sequestered out of jobs, but that isn’t ever gonna happen.
They started with allowing knitting needles.
Obviously these people live in a freakin’ cocoon.
The TSS ThuGoons (if that’s not a word it ought to be) are only doing their duty. . . Every time I think of the Thugs Standing Around, I think of a GB Shaw character (IIRC) saying something like, “When a stupid man does something he knows is wrong, he always claims it is his duty.”
Ak. TSA ThuGoons. Typos and coffee deprivation are my bane.
A blade that small on a knife that’s neither a fixed blade or a lockback isn’t much of a knife, IMO. OTOH, Hank Reinhardt had some lengthy tips (Hank Reinhardt’s Book of Knives, http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1619-hank-reinhardts-book-of-knives.aspx) for using just such knives in self-defense. *shrugs* I’d still rather dispense with the TSA (“Thugs Standing Around”) and let folks who’ve had some decent training and who have a concealed carry permit carry a firearm loaded with frangible rounds. It’d beat the TSA’s security kabuki for improving safety.
I’d have trouble flying under TSA’s silly rules. I usually carry between 3 and five knives all the time, depending on where I am and what I might be doing/run into. I rarely carry one with a blade over 5″ unless I’m out in the “piney woods” or clearing brush or some such, but a “pouch” knife (usually either a leatherman multi-tool kind of knife or a 5.5″ blade skinning knife), a “back pocket” lockback (AKA, “Hank Reinhardt Quick-draw” *heh*), a pocket knife (4.5″ blade lockback) and boot knife are pretty standard. I very, very rarely carry my 10.5″-blade German fireman’s dress dagger in public. *heh*
I need suspenders for more than just keeping my pants up. *heh*
(“Car carry” is something else. . . )
I began carrying a pocket knife in grade school–most of us boys did back then and no one thought a thing about it–and really do feel almost naked without at least one knife on my person at all times. Amazingly useful tools. I have no idea how many knives I own, but I tend to carry almost all of them at different times, for different reasons from time to time. (The reed knife is one of the exceptions–for trimming reeds for woodwind instruments–it’s never been carried outside my home in anything but an instrument case.)
Oh, and yeh, I do sometimes carry one of my Olfa “box cutters” (utility knife) with me when I’m out and about. Just depends on if I think I might need one. They’re much, much more than just box cutters.
The Thugs Standing Around would just love me.
I can take a whiffle bat on the plane with me? Bwa-hahahahaha!!!!!!!
Security theater would be okay if it were entertaining, but it’s not.
I’ve decided I need an ocean in the way in order to travel by air.
If there isn’t already martial arts system for a whiffle bat, there will be soon.
A whiffle bat REALLY does hurt like a bitch.