Remember when airline safety regulations were realistic and you could carry a pocketknife on an airplane?
(and before that when there was actually Freedom, and you could wear a sidearm on a civilian airliner?)
Straight out of the August 1999 Cooper's Commentaries:
Family member Bill O'Connor reports that he was hassled recently at the Philadelphia Airport because his pocketknife had a serrated edge. Apparently carrying a knife with a serrated edge is politically incorrect in the City of Brotherly Love. The aparatchik at the gate promised to mail the knife to him at a later date, but as you might suppose it has not showed up yet. Somehow it appears quaint to attempt to hijack an airliner with a pocketknife, but then a lot of things appear quaint in the Age of the Wimp.
I cannot tell you the regret I had, that the 9/11/01 hijackers used a legal-sized blade to hijack the planes, because I just knew that they would get all stupid with restrictions on what you can take on a plane. And of course, they did.
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