I remember Richard Reed. It’s his fault we are getting our shoes X-rayed in airports now – and I travel a lot. However, he was a complete idiot: he tried to light plastic explosive on fire with a match. Yeah, that was subtle.
Also, just for the record, TSA employees can’t detect plastic explosive at better than chance levels. The Bush Administration dedicated their security efforts to frisking pilots (talk about unnecessary) and harassing passengers instead of installing X-Ray machines that can differentiate plastic explosive from, well, plastic. So we are being harassed uselessly. Real terrorists (not Reed, he was just an idiot follower) would know the real danger is zero, but millions of passengers are being abused for nothing.
Not that I’m angry about this or anything.
I remember Richard Reed. It’s his fault we are getting our shoes X-rayed in airports now – and I travel a lot. However, he was a complete idiot: he tried to light plastic explosive on fire with a match. Yeah, that was subtle. Also, just for the record, TSA employees can’t detect plastic explosive at better than chance levels. The Bush Administration dedicated their security efforts to frisking pilots (talk about unnecessary) and harassing passengers instead of installing X-Ray machines that can differentiate plastic explosive from, well, plastic. So we are being harassed uselessly. Real terrorists (not Reed, he was just an idiot follower) would know the real danger is zero, but millions of passengers are being abused for nothing. Not that I’m angry about this or anything.