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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE" |
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08 Feb 2006 09:28:40 PM |
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Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
This article says one guy tried that. They talk about all the crazy
stuff people try to bring on planes. Airpports take the stuff and
then sell it.
http://money.aol.com/news/dailypulse/020706?id=20060207102809990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001
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| User: "James Of Tucson" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
08 Feb 2006 10:18:45 PM |
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Seizing property without due process. Whatever law supposedly grants
this authority is unconstitutional on its face. The traveller should
be given a genuine opportunity to have his property returned to him,
certainly before it is seized by the federal government to be sold as
auction.
Time was, I routinely travelled with a case containing many tools,
including several soldering irons, a Leatherman and other tools, and
numerous things for wire cutting and bending. This stuff passed
through x-ray checkpoints without a hitch, except one time, the
screener wanted me to open my Leatherman, to be sure it was just a
knife. Surrendering my whole toolbox would have meant perhaps a $3500
loss, and a significant interruption in my career.
Nowadays, I travel with just a laptop computer and a garmet bag. I
still get special screening quite often, because I frequently use my
laptop in an environment that is rich in nitrates. My case, the
computer itself, and my paperwork triggers the swab sniffers almost
every time. (It bothers me a little that they don't test positive
*every* time!)
But there's no way in hell I'd let a federal agent seize my property
without a warrant, without also arresting me, and certainly not without
a receipt indicating what was seized, why it was seized, and under what
conditions it will be returned. The only reason they get away with it,
is because people are genuinely afraid of missing their flights, or
perhaps they even believe they will be put on a no fly list just for
asking questions.
The money made from selling these confiscated items should be
distributed to travellers, not law enforcement agents, and certainly
not to anyone else.
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| User: "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
09 Feb 2006 02:04:33 AM |
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James Of Tucson wrote:
Seizing property without due process. Whatever law supposedly grants
this authority is unconstitutional on its face. The traveller should
be given a genuine opportunity to have his property returned to him,
certainly before it is seized by the federal government to be sold as
auction.
Time was, I routinely travelled with a case containing many tools,
including several soldering irons, a Leatherman and other tools, and
numerous things for wire cutting and bending. This stuff passed
through x-ray checkpoints without a hitch, except one time, the
screener wanted me to open my Leatherman, to be sure it was just a
knife. Surrendering my whole toolbox would have meant perhaps a $3500
loss, and a significant interruption in my career.
Nowadays, I travel with just a laptop computer and a garmet bag. I
still get special screening quite often, because I frequently use my
laptop in an environment that is rich in nitrates. My case, the
computer itself, and my paperwork triggers the swab sniffers almost
every time. (It bothers me a little that they don't test positive
*every* time!)
But there's no way in hell I'd let a federal agent seize my property
without a warrant, without also arresting me, and certainly not without
a receipt indicating what was seized, why it was seized, and under what
conditions it will be returned. The only reason they get away with it,
is because people are genuinely afraid of missing their flights, or
perhaps they even believe they will be put on a no fly list just for
asking questions.
The money made from selling these confiscated items should be
distributed to travellers, not law enforcement agents, and certainly
not to anyone else.
I got a a better idea. Read the rules and don't bring contraband on the
plane. Prom solved.
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| User: "Bill Bonde Soli Deo Gloria" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
09 Feb 2006 11:29:23 PM |
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Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
James Of Tucson wrote:
Seizing property without due process. Whatever law supposedly grants
this authority is unconstitutional on its face. The traveller should
be given a genuine opportunity to have his property returned to him,
certainly before it is seized by the federal government to be sold as
auction.
Time was, I routinely travelled with a case containing many tools,
including several soldering irons, a Leatherman and other tools, and
numerous things for wire cutting and bending. This stuff passed
through x-ray checkpoints without a hitch, except one time, the
screener wanted me to open my Leatherman, to be sure it was just a
knife. Surrendering my whole toolbox would have meant perhaps a $3500
loss, and a significant interruption in my career.
Nowadays, I travel with just a laptop computer and a garmet bag. I
still get special screening quite often, because I frequently use my
laptop in an environment that is rich in nitrates. My case, the
computer itself, and my paperwork triggers the swab sniffers almost
every time. (It bothers me a little that they don't test positive
*every* time!)
But there's no way in hell I'd let a federal agent seize my property
without a warrant, without also arresting me, and certainly not without
a receipt indicating what was seized, why it was seized, and under what
conditions it will be returned. The only reason they get away with it,
is because people are genuinely afraid of missing their flights, or
perhaps they even believe they will be put on a no fly list just for
asking questions.
The money made from selling these confiscated items should be
distributed to travellers, not law enforcement agents, and certainly
not to anyone else.
I got a a better idea. Read the rules and don't bring contraband on the
plane.
You mean now that even the Contras are banned? That's going too far.
--
"He named his second child Jim after the horse that had brought him to
Washington. He caught his son one day writing 'James' on his lessons,
and he told the boy without raising his voice that if he had wanted to
name him 'James', that is what he would have done." -+Edward P. Jones,
"The Known World"
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| User: "Bill Bonde Soli Deo Gloria" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
09 Feb 2006 11:20:23 PM |
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Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
James Of Tucson wrote:
Seizing property without due process. Whatever law supposedly grants
this authority is unconstitutional on its face. The traveller should
be given a genuine opportunity to have his property returned to him,
certainly before it is seized by the federal government to be sold as
auction.
Time was, I routinely travelled with a case containing many tools,
including several soldering irons, a Leatherman and other tools, and
numerous things for wire cutting and bending. This stuff passed
through x-ray checkpoints without a hitch, except one time, the
screener wanted me to open my Leatherman, to be sure it was just a
knife. Surrendering my whole toolbox would have meant perhaps a $3500
loss, and a significant interruption in my career.
Nowadays, I travel with just a laptop computer and a garmet bag. I
still get special screening quite often, because I frequently use my
laptop in an environment that is rich in nitrates. My case, the
computer itself, and my paperwork triggers the swab sniffers almost
every time. (It bothers me a little that they don't test positive
*every* time!)
But there's no way in hell I'd let a federal agent seize my property
without a warrant, without also arresting me, and certainly not without
a receipt indicating what was seized, why it was seized, and under what
conditions it will be returned. The only reason they get away with it,
is because people are genuinely afraid of missing their flights, or
perhaps they even believe they will be put on a no fly list just for
asking questions.
The money made from selling these confiscated items should be
distributed to travellers, not law enforcement agents, and certainly
not to anyone else.
I got a a better idea. Read the rules and don't bring contraband on the
plane. Prom solved.
Did the rules say you couldn't bring a 42" bar Stihl chainsaw on board?
It'd fit in the overhead, wouldn't it?
--
"He named his second child Jim after the horse that had brought him to
Washington. He caught his son one day writing 'James' on his lessons,
and he told the boy without raising his voice that if he had wanted to
name him 'James', that is what he would have done." -+Edward P. Jones,
"The Known World"
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
09 Feb 2006 05:00:06 AM |
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Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
James Of Tucson wrote:
Seizing property without due process. Whatever law supposedly grants
this authority is unconstitutional on its face. The traveller should
be given a genuine opportunity to have his property returned to him,
certainly before it is seized by the federal government to be sold as
auction.
Time was, I routinely travelled with a case containing many tools,
including several soldering irons, a Leatherman and other tools, and
numerous things for wire cutting and bending. This stuff passed
through x-ray checkpoints without a hitch, except one time, the
screener wanted me to open my Leatherman, to be sure it was just a
knife. Surrendering my whole toolbox would have meant perhaps a $3500
loss, and a significant interruption in my career.
Nowadays, I travel with just a laptop computer and a garmet bag. I
still get special screening quite often, because I frequently use my
laptop in an environment that is rich in nitrates. My case, the
computer itself, and my paperwork triggers the swab sniffers almost
every time. (It bothers me a little that they don't test positive
*every* time!)
But there's no way in hell I'd let a federal agent seize my property
without a warrant, without also arresting me, and certainly not without
a receipt indicating what was seized, why it was seized, and under what
conditions it will be returned. The only reason they get away with it,
is because people are genuinely afraid of missing their flights, or
perhaps they even believe they will be put on a no fly list just for
asking questions.
The money made from selling these confiscated items should be
distributed to travellers, not law enforcement agents, and certainly
not to anyone else.
I got a a better idea. Read the rules and don't bring contraband on the
plane. Prom solved.
It's rare, but occasionally you do get one right. I'm flying around
like crazy these days, and so far the only problems I've had have been
with lighters, which I learned after the first flight not to carry on
board any more.
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| User: "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" |
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| Title: Re: Who would try to carry a chain saw onto a commercial plane?? |
09 Feb 2006 09:59:01 AM |
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wrote:
Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
I got a a better idea. Read the rules and don't bring contraband on the
plane. Prom solved.
It's rare, but occasionally you do get one right. I'm flying around
like crazy these days, and so far the only problems I've had have been
with lighters, which I learned after the first flight not to carry on
board any more.
So you're a disgusting smoker too. No wonder you don't have any
friends.
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