Air travel, etc

[magid]

I was checking the current air travel regulations, and kept snerking.

With certain exceptions for prescription and over-the-counter medicines, baby formula and breast milk, and other essential liquids, gels, and aerosols, the following rules apply to all liquids, gels, and aerosols you want to carry through a security checkpoint.

1. All liquids, gels and aerosols must be in three-ounce or smaller containers. [...]

I'm glad there's that exemption for lactating women, not requiring them to have mastectomies before flying.
(Yeah, I know, it's for expressed milk, but they didn't say that.)

To ensure the health and welfare of certain air travelers there are no limits on the amounts of the following liquids, gels and aerosols you may carry through a security checkpoint:

[...]
* Life-support and life-sustaining liquids such as bone marrow, blood products, and transplant organs; [...]

I'm glad no one has to check the kidneys going to a transplant recipient. With some of the luggage mishandling that can happen, I shudder to think what would happen...

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Sign: "We have squash equipment."
Which got me thinking about all the exercise equipment for zucchinis and other vegetables, desperately trying to bulk up and get strong, to avoid the chef's knife for younger, more tender vegetables.

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I've worn sandals a lot this week (and it was warm enough to overheat in a T-shirt on the walk home last night), but there's at least one sign of winter (beyond the ever-barer trees): the wooden steps were installed outside Widener yesterday morning.

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I love how gel insoles are still prohibited, but gel breast prostheses are okay. Gee, which one do -you- think could hold more Bad Dangerous Liquid? Not to mention, as soon as they allow for -any- liquid to be carried on in volumes greater than 3 ounces, they've left themselves wide open to attack.

Terrorist: Hmm, so we can now disguise our explosives in breast milk, blood, or fake boobs. Thanks, TSA, for the useful list!

I'm also pissed that, while saline can be brought on in containers larger than 3 ounces, the assholes who wrote the reg seem completely unaware that saline does not come in containers smaller than 4 ounces. So I can either clearly point out my half-empty, 4 ounce container of saline, so it can get "extra" security checks, and possibly be denied by some moron who isn't up to speed on the regs, or I can leave it in my cargo pocket, where it won't be noticed.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's too easy, imagining stories of busty terrorists...

And someone will figure out some other way to attack on a plane, and we'll have yet further restrictions, making it more and more draconian.

What a pain about the saline.

I'm trying to figure out what to do about getting enough water. Current idea is to bring the Camelbak empty, and ask for lots of bottles when they come around. I hate the idea of not having any water until they come around, though.

[queue.livejournal.com]

You can buy water inside the secured area. I'm not sure if you're allowed to bring that onto the plane with you, but you could easily smuggle it in.

You could also just use the drinking fountains while you're waiting to board, so that you'll be mostly hydrated until they come around with drink service on the flight.

[magid.livejournal.com]

It annoys me to have to buy the water once I've been through security.

Drinking fountains... I can fill up the Camelbak at those.

It's not only about actual hydration; having the water available makes a difference whether I'm thirsty or not.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Fill the Camelbak once you pass security. I doubt any of the gate-area aircrew will notice you're bringing on unpurchased fluids.

[(Anonymous)]

A woman was kicked off a plane in Vermont recently for breastfeeding.

What is the purpose of the wooden stairs?

[magid.livejournal.com]

A woman was kicked off a plane in Vermont recently for breastfeeding.
What? Why? I'm assuming it doesn't have to do with the regulations about liquids...

The stairs are because the regular stone steps become incredibly slippery in the winter, and are hard to clear off completely, so they cover the middle section with boards.

[queue.livejournal.com]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=vermont+breastfeeding&btnG=Search+News

[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

really? Nobody's ever bothered me yet.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see them try!
They wouldn't know what hit them.

[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

don't knock them blood products - and thank heavens me girls are safe. And yay for sandals!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't knock blood products (or knockers :-). I guess I'm just still in shock that these sorts of intuitively obvious things need to be stated as exceptions to what I still think is an onerous burden on people who fly. But then, there's a lot of regulation recently that I've not been in favor of...

(And as long as it stays warm sandals = less laundry, too. Yay!)