A guy gets sick and grumpy and won't come out of the restroom, so when the plane lands they go through everybody else's luggage. There's government logic for you. Yeesh.
The logical solution to this ongoing fuckup of airline security is to take the ConAir approach. March 'em in, shackle them hand and foot to their seats and post air marshalls throughout the plane. The bunch of spineless sheep the American public has become should take this in stride. The fact that they keep on electing Repugnants who fuck 'em to death once in office is indisputable evidence.
I see that you are endorsing Robert Heinlein's solution (that's one of the major plot points of that novel -- everybody forced to strip naked in order to fly). Unfortunately some of us have to fly for business. I simply can't get from San Francisco to Buffalo in any other way in a reasonable amount of time. The next-fastest way from San Fran to Buffalo (thanks to the U.S. having no high-speed rail network) is via Greyhound, and that still takes three days one-way. But those are the only people who are going to fly from now on... next year, when the family wants me to show up for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I have no idea what I'm going to do but flying doesn't seem to be in the cards.
A guy gets sick and grumpy and won't come out of the restroom, so when the plane lands they go through everybody else's luggage. There's government logic for you. Yeesh.
ReplyDeleteGod forbid you need to take an urgent dump on a plane from now on...
ReplyDeleteThe logical solution to this ongoing fuckup of airline security is to take the ConAir approach. March 'em in, shackle them hand and foot to their seats and post air marshalls throughout the plane. The bunch of spineless sheep the American public has become should take this in stride. The fact that they keep on electing Repugnants who fuck 'em to death once in office is indisputable evidence.
ReplyDeleteI see that you are endorsing Robert Heinlein's solution (that's one of the major plot points of that novel -- everybody forced to strip naked in order to fly). Unfortunately some of us have to fly for business. I simply can't get from San Francisco to Buffalo in any other way in a reasonable amount of time. The next-fastest way from San Fran to Buffalo (thanks to the U.S. having no high-speed rail network) is via Greyhound, and that still takes three days one-way. But those are the only people who are going to fly from now on... next year, when the family wants me to show up for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I have no idea what I'm going to do but flying doesn't seem to be in the cards.
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