Peel that banana now!

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We all know that liquids are no longer allowed on airplanes

At Dulles International Airport near Washington on Thursday morning, one traveler reported that screeners were also making passengers remove all food items from their carry-on luggage for inspection, and one passenger was told to peel her banana [source].

At this rate, the terrorists don’t even have to carry out any attacks. They just have to spread rumors of using ridiculous means of inflicting ‘harm’ and watch us wrap ourselves in stupidity. Then, they can go off laughing into the sunset. We’ll still be at it years from now.

Update: For those who think we live in ‘interesting times’, read this fantastic and pithy post by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing. Let us all have ‘I am not a Terrorist’ card.

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“Peel that banana now!” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=1586] was published Friday, August 11th, 2006 at 5:12 pm by Patrix, filed under Fun & Weird. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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bloghopper
Desperate conditions demand desperate measures. Is there any other alternative ?
http://ipatrix.com Patrix
Bloghopper, ohno! its about to get more desperate! Then we can block blogs :)
http://www.retributions.wordpress.com confused
Sigh! I really don’t have an answer. At what stage security turns too intrusive? Another remarkable thing is that this attack was foiled by using the kind of surveillance Bush administration was doing before it’s cover was blown by NYT. Should we be doing it?
http://www.mypajama.com vijayendra
Cop pointing gun, “Put the banana on the floor slowly. Then put your hands behind your head and slowly move away from it.”
http://ipatrix.com Patrix
Confused, I understand the fears and apprehensions but when I read the banana story, I couldn’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole scenario. What’s next? Boarding the planes naked?

Vijayendra, LOL! simply begs to be made into parodies, right?
http://www.safeaway.blogspot.com Vi
Reminds of a story from Scott Adam’s blog about his young son’s banana-shaped suction dart shooting yellow toy gun, and the fact that officials told him that he couldn’t bring it in his carry-on bag.
http://www.opti-mystic.net/blog/ Sameer
Solid bombs… liquid bombs… what next?! … sky marshals pouncing on a flatulent passenger! … “Mayday, Mayday!! … passenger with a gas bomb!!“

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Peel that banana now!

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