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posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 11:01am on 30/08/2007
boingboing has news of new indignities you can expect on traveling in the US by air, and the comments to this post suggest this kind of thing is quite widespread.

I expect my next trip to Hawaii will be via Canada, keeping my time on US soil to an absolute minimum. Sorry to those of you over there i might otherwise visit, but this is getting well beyond a joke.

ETA: And we now find that holy water from Lourdes is a terrorist threat even on the Vatican's own airline. Will this madness never end?
Mood:: 'angry' angry
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 11:50am on 30/08/2007
Weird -- I've never had anything happen to me like that, although I do give myself a lot of extra time these days, because my bags have gone through extra screening a couple of times.
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posted by [identity profile] crazysoph.livejournal.com at 11:50am on 30/08/2007
There are days when I want to ask friends residing in the land of my birth if they still want to know me, seeing as how any communication from outside of the country might tag them as suspect...

Then again, I also sometimes think some of them want to stay in touch, if only for a handy address to aim for in a crisis.

Crazy(and tending to paranoia - but not regarding the approved targets)Soph
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posted by [identity profile] cakmpls.livejournal.com at 12:31pm on 30/08/2007
Is it really only in the U.S.? On our trip to Korea this summer, we found stricter rules about what can be carried onboard in Korea than in the U.S.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 12:49pm on 30/08/2007
Well Lourdes is in France, so the 'war on some liquids' is definitely an international thing (though probably prompted by the US).
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posted by [identity profile] pocket-size-g.livejournal.com at 01:41pm on 30/08/2007
I think it was about last summer (did anything happen last summer?) when the liquid ban started. In your hand luggage, you can only take containers of up to 100 ml in a resealable bag of 1 l. It's a pain.
Although at least now they allow some liquids, for a while last summer (when I was flying back to London from Spain, actually, something must have happened) your "hand luggage" was a plastic bag in which you were only allowed your passport and your wallet. Not even keys or a phone.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 01:53pm on 30/08/2007
Yes - this is when the 'war on some liquids' took off - see here for an amusing take down. It's rumoured that the US TSA had wanted to restrict or ban liquids for some time and jumped on this with great enthusiasm. Those charged in this plot still haven't been brought to trial.

The liquid ban also helps the airport duty free shops since booze you might buy from somewhere else is not deemed 'safe enough' to be taken as carry on, and only a loon would put it in their checked luggage, given that this now has to be open to allow for searches and thefts, and the way the chuckers - sorry, baggage handlers - handle the things.
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