Airport security theatre: Zipties

[robbat2]

So my carry-on laptop backpack got a full going-over because of a little folding tripod that apparently looked weird on the scanner...

And they saw and removed the small zipties that I use for securing my suitcase normally, claiming that I could use them to tie people up.

Nevermind the 6ft ethernet cable, or the laptop cable, I was going to be able to tie somebody up with a couple of zip-ties, each 5cm in length, with a width of less than 4mm.

The American TSA side has never complained about them, and now on a Canadian domestic flight they did. Just simply crazy.

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[amethest.livejournal.com]

Apparently, he took you up on the latter suggestion - seven glasses of beer and throwing up his dinner definitely counts as, "Sillier."

I think when he gets home we're going to have a very nice talk about the dangers of binge drinking and peer pressure.

If everyone else's liver jumped off a cliff, would yours?