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It's naive to assume that someone working at the airport would actually know whats going on. These are the lowest level employees. They know what they need to k
by tempsolution 7y ago
It's naive to assume that someone working at the airport would actually know whats going on. These are the lowest level employees. They know what they need to know, i.e. "Take the bottle and throw it away". Maybe they give you some smoke screen story like "Ug there could be explosives in there. Or lord knows what."...
I am not sure, but to me it seems common sense that pouring potential explosives and poison into a bin, feels kinda shady...? No?
The real reason why they want you to dump all your stuff is simple. All these 45 million people need to rely on what the airport & planes provides. Lots of money to be made here...
A much bigger hazard: My MacBook with water damage. I am pretty sure the chances are higher that it just bursts into flames during a flight, than someone carrying explosives in a fucking water bottle.
- orev 7y ago> The real reason why they want you to dump all your stuff is simple. All these 45 million people need to rely on what the airport & planes provides. Lots of money to be made here... Kind of tired of seeing this obviously wrong and cynical reasoning. You are allowed to bring food through, and also empty bottles that you can refill at dedicated water bottle filling stations.
- kspacewalk2 7y agoI like to think of it as cynical naivete. You don't actually know, nor are you curious enough to find out, but you want to appear wise and full of hard-earned real world experience. So you just assume the worst intent on everyone's part.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoI always figured it was like the shoe removal or rumors about disallowing laptops on carry-on... the authorities had intelligence that these things would be used as part of an attack.