At 03:09 PM 10/18/01 -0700, j eric townsend wrote:
How to get detained and miss your flight. Bring the wrong book with you:
Plus, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations stipulate that any passenger who jokes about explosives be arrested on the spot. By contrast, Godfrey was never charged or even accused of breaking the law. I
But the security personnel joke all they want. I flew out of San Jose after they gotten national guardsmen. Going through security, a security dude looks at my bottle of water, opens it, sniffs it, and acts like he's just whiffed sarin. Then he smiles and puts it back in my bag. I'm thinking, what an asshole, if I did that I'd be screwed. And I'm lucky no nervous guardsman saw his stunt from across the room and didn't see the laugh while he was slinging his M-16 around.. Wonder what they'll think if I bring my copy of _Demolition: the art of demolishing dismantling imploding toppling & razing_ by H. Liss & the Loizeauxs. The cover is a four-picture series of a hotel falling, less cleanly than the WTC actually. (But it looks like it was brick.) Or maybe _Why buildings fall down_ which has a B-25 bomber flying into a skyscraper (ca. 1945). Don't need Hollywood for that idea.