The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, August 10, 2006  

EMPTY YOUR BAG, MA'AM
I Know That Stuff's Expensive, But Really

An irritated traveler interviewed by an Associated Press reporter :

In the Atlanta airport, Brenda Lee was annoyed with the lines and having to remove items from her luggage. The 52-year-old commercial real estate appraiser from Snellville, Georgia, had to throw away her shampoo, but she said she was keeping her contact lens solution in her carry-on luggage.

How quickly they forget. Also from the A.P. today:

The threat first appeared in January 1995 in the Philippines, when police stumbled on a suspected al-Qaeda plot to target U.S.-bound planes with bombs based on nitroglycerine carried on board in containers for contact lens solution.

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