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It prohibits a secondary market for airline tickets without violating the law. Otherwise, it is unlawful in most US jurisdictions and for most things to prohib

It prohibits a secondary market for airline tickets without violating the law. Otherwise, it is unlawful in most US jurisdictions and for most things to prohibit ticket resales. Sometimes the reason is really stupid. Like with liquids, it's as basic as selling more concessions.

oh_sigh 6y ago
That is a really stupid reason, because it doesn't make any sense. Why would the security agencies care how many concessions are sold? Why would airports provide free drinking fountains with bottle-filling attachments if there was some governmental conspiracy to sell more water? The much more likely explanation is that there is some threat where the neer-do-wells would use X oz of something bad to mess up a plane or the passengers. Maybe X=5 and it is to prevent lone wolf attacks. Maybe X=21 and the argument is they would need to get 7 bad guys onto the plane to do it, which decreases the odds significantly that it could be pulled off without security agencies figuring out the plan.
112012123 6y ago
Well, the liquid ban was added because some terrorists were caught trying to smuggle liquid binary explosives onto airplanes (with the plan to mix them in-air, then detonate them). Some airports are repealing the liquid ban now that they've developed screening machines that can accurately identify the contents of water bottles etc.
- bsder 6y ago
  > accurately identify the contents of water bottles "accurately" -- rolls eyes. Put a small bottle of silicone lube in your carry-on and watch the slapstick. Apparently silicone lube comes up as a totally unusual color on TSA carry on screens. At least in Austin, TX--nobody recognizes it (I bet SFO wouldn't have this problem). I had 4 fairly small, young ladies mulling over a bottle that I had forgotten about (normally my luggage is totally air travel optimized but I had been doing a lot of driving travel with my wife and didn't do a good enough purge). I was like, look, it's under the limits, but just throw it out. I'm not in a hurry but I also don't want to be held up forever and miss my plane over an $8 dollar bottle of liquid. In spite of the quite obvious labeling, one of the young ladies decided to get a bit snippy and demand what it was. Erm. Okay. It's written on the side of the bottle, but you asked for it. So, I got to explain in excruciating and visceral detail in my rather stentorian voice that small women like her and her cohorts often need a bit of help when they attempt to have sex with someone who has an enormous dong like mine. THAT was the purpose of the bottle that has the words "sexual lubricant" emblazoned on the side. All four of the women blushed to the top of their ears. Quite a few people in line chuckled. My wife rolled her eyes with her "I'm so put upon" expression. They finally threw the bottle out and waved me through. At the gate board, a Good Ole Boy Texan--hat, boots, and belt buckle-stopped us with a full drawl "That was great and they so deserved that. How bout I buy y'all a beer?" It was a good beer.
  - deathgrips 6y ago
    And then everybody clapped!
  - ruffrey 6y ago
    The good ole boy’s name? Albert Einstein.
IncRnd 6y ago
TSA doesn't check your ID in order to prohibit a secondary market for airline tickets or to ban liquids.

oh_sigh 6y ago

That is a really stupid reason, because it doesn't make any sense. Why would the security agencies care how many concessions are sold? Why would airports provide free drinking fountains with bottle-filling attachments if there was some governmental conspiracy to sell more water? The much more likely explanation is that there is some threat where the neer-do-wells would use X oz of something bad to mess up a plane or the passengers. Maybe X=5 and it is to prevent lone wolf attacks. Maybe X=21 and the argument is they would need to get 7 bad guys onto the plane to do it, which decreases the odds significantly that it could be pulled off without security agencies figuring out the plan.

112012123 6y ago

Well, the liquid ban was added because some terrorists were caught trying to smuggle liquid binary explosives onto airplanes (with the plan to mix them in-air, then detonate them). Some airports are repealing the liquid ban now that they've developed screening machines that can accurately identify the contents of water bottles etc.

bsder 6y ago
> accurately identify the contents of water bottles "accurately" -- rolls eyes. Put a small bottle of silicone lube in your carry-on and watch the slapstick. Apparently silicone lube comes up as a totally unusual color on TSA carry on screens. At least in Austin, TX--nobody recognizes it (I bet SFO wouldn't have this problem). I had 4 fairly small, young ladies mulling over a bottle that I had forgotten about (normally my luggage is totally air travel optimized but I had been doing a lot of driving travel with my wife and didn't do a good enough purge). I was like, look, it's under the limits, but just throw it out. I'm not in a hurry but I also don't want to be held up forever and miss my plane over an $8 dollar bottle of liquid. In spite of the quite obvious labeling, one of the young ladies decided to get a bit snippy and demand what it was. Erm. Okay. It's written on the side of the bottle, but you asked for it. So, I got to explain in excruciating and visceral detail in my rather stentorian voice that small women like her and her cohorts often need a bit of help when they attempt to have sex with someone who has an enormous dong like mine. THAT was the purpose of the bottle that has the words "sexual lubricant" emblazoned on the side. All four of the women blushed to the top of their ears. Quite a few people in line chuckled. My wife rolled her eyes with her "I'm so put upon" expression. They finally threw the bottle out and waved me through. At the gate board, a Good Ole Boy Texan--hat, boots, and belt buckle-stopped us with a full drawl "That was great and they so deserved that. How bout I buy y'all a beer?" It was a good beer.
- deathgrips 6y ago
  And then everybody clapped!
- ruffrey 6y ago
  The good ole boy’s name? Albert Einstein.

IncRnd 6y ago

TSA doesn't check your ID in order to prohibit a secondary market for airline tickets or to ban liquids.