Yes! lighters to be unbanned from flights - GoFuckYourself.com

JakeR · 07-20-2007, 08:17 AM

got pretty annoying having to toss out lighters.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19864658/

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NEW YORK - Airline passengers will be able to bring many types of cigarette lighters on board again starting next month after authorities found that a ban on the devices did little to make flying safer, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Friday.

The agency also announced that it was changing its policy on breast milk, and will allow mothers with or without children to carry more than three ounces onto planes.

Starting Aug. 4, air travelers will be allowed to carry disposable butane lighters, such as Bics, and refillable lighters, including Zippos, the TSA said. A prohibition will continue on torch-style lighters, which have hotter flames.
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The agency said it costs close to $4 million to dispose of the more than 22,000 lighters it seizes every day.

Barred from checked bags
Lighters have been barred from checked bags for decades because of concerns they could start fires in cargo holds.

Congress banned lighters from flights after Richard Reid used matches to try to light explosives hidden in his shoes while on a Paris-to-Miami flight in 2001. Lawmakers worried that Reid might have succeeded if he had had a lighter. The lighter ban took effect in April 2005.

In an interview with The New York Times, TSA chief Kip Hawley said confiscating lighters has not helped security much because other items could be used to detonate bombs.

?The No. 1 threat for us is someone trying to bring bomb components through the security checkpoint,? the newspaper quoted Hawley as saying. ?We don?t want anything that distracts concentration from searching for that.?

Rochard · 07-20-2007, 08:27 AM

I'm surprised our goverment has missed a money making oppertunity.

Instead of tossing the lighters out, what they need to do is move them over to the security exit on the other site of security - where people exit the security area to get their baggage after getting off the plane. I'm stunned that they haven't been selling the "tossed out" lighters for fifty cents a pop to the smokers who don't have lighters.

JakeR · 07-20-2007, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I'm surprised our goverment has missed a money making oppertunity.

Instead of tossing the lighters out, what they need to do is move them over to the security exit on the other site of security - where people exit the security area to get their baggage after getting off the plane. I'm stunned that they haven't been selling the "tossed out" lighters for fifty cents a pop to the smokers who don't have lighters.

After reading the article, I was surprised when it stated that it cost them 4 million to get rid of lighters. I would figure someone would come in and take them off their hands. They auction off other seized goods, they should have auctioned off lots of 25-50k.

BIGTYMER · 07-20-2007, 08:47 AM

Sweet! Good news for the smokers.

Cyndalie · 07-20-2007, 09:06 AM

Sweet, less waste.

Kevsh · 07-20-2007, 09:08 AM

I've been taking lighters on flights for months now, in plain view.
Was it just a USA thing?

johannes · 07-20-2007, 09:13 AM

good news for FREEONES ;)

KILL_FRENZY · 07-20-2007, 09:17 AM

that's good news

ztik · 07-20-2007, 09:17 AM

I always snuck my lighters on, never got caught, lol

D · 07-20-2007, 09:28 AM

Oh, Joy.

Maybe next week, they'll give us back the power to bring nail-clippers on planes... and hair gel, too, maybe, even....

And after that - maybe reinstate our constitutional right to need to be charged with a crime in order to be held in prison.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming... not sure what we'd do with that much freedom. Hair gel, lighters, nail-clippers, _and_ freedom from our government's oppression, as our Founding Fathers intended?

That might be reaching.

/sarcasm

HotMonica · 07-20-2007, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ztik

I always snuck my lighters on, never got caught, lol

i've gone through with so many lighters, so many times...

I wish you could still bring coffee or water, or even bring peanut butter on crackers.

_Richard_ · 07-20-2007, 09:39 AM

didn't even know this was a problem lol

jonesonyou · 07-20-2007, 09:40 AM

Should not be a problem aslong as racial profiling come into place.

pigbait75 · 07-20-2007, 10:05 AM

I could never understand that they take away finger nail clippers but when you get a mixed drink you get a stirrer that you could kill with. southwest would give you a huge red stirrer that was sharp on the end. and what do you need a lighter on an airplane for?

Roald · 07-20-2007, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by johannes

good news for FREEONES ;)

Haha thats exactly what I wanted to post in here!!!!!!

seeric · 07-20-2007, 10:30 AM

thank god lighters cant do any damage.

everyone knows that the really dangerous shit is toothpaste and my hair spiker stuff. thats some dangerous shit.

i'm so sure you couldnt do any danger with an open flame, but that toothpaste, you may over brush the persons teeth next to you.

Bwahahaha.

Varius · 07-20-2007, 10:37 AM

I had always thought metal utensils were banned, but nope I got a hard as steel sharp fork on my flight to Vegas. You could easily stab through someone's jugular with that in a second.

seeric · 07-20-2007, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Varius

I had always thought metal utensils were banned, but nope I got a hard as steel sharp fork on my flight to Vegas. You could easily stab through someone's jugular with that in a second.

what the hell are you carrying a fork around for?

they must assign them to people in costa rica

Varius · 07-20-2007, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by A1R3K

what the hell are you carrying a fork around for?

they must assign them to people in costa rica

hehe no they gave it to me on my houston-vegas flight, hard sharp metal. I was surprised all my other flights normally it's plastic sporks.

crockett · 07-20-2007, 11:11 AM

Are laptops still banned for carry on?

baddog · 07-20-2007, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Are laptops still banned for carry on?

never have been

Juicy D. Links · 07-20-2007, 11:55 AM

thank GOd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When will they unban the "No Smoking in Bathroom" ?

Jimmy Rock · 07-20-2007, 12:05 PM

Now tell them to give me all my frieken calogne they took from me

rowan · 07-20-2007, 12:34 PM

Uh... what was the breast milk thing about? Why were quantities limited?

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D Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Valley Posts: 7,412	Oh, Joy. Maybe next week, they'll give us back the power to bring nail-clippers on planes... and hair gel, too, maybe, even.... And after that - maybe reinstate our constitutional right to need to be charged with a crime in order to be held in prison. Or maybe I'm just dreaming... not sure what we'd do with that much freedom. Hair gel, lighters, nail-clippers, _and_ freedom from our government's oppression, as our Founding Fathers intended? That might be reaching. /sarcasm __________________ -D. ICQ: 202-96-31 Last edited by D; 07-20-2007 at 09:29 AM..

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pigbait75 Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 125	I could never understand that they take away finger nail clippers but when you get a mixed drink you get a stirrer that you could kill with. southwest would give you a huge red stirrer that was sharp on the end. and what do you need a lighter on an airplane for?

07-20-2007, 10:30 AM	#16
seeric .......... Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: .......... Posts: 41,917	thank god lighters cant do any damage. everyone knows that the really dangerous shit is toothpaste and my hair spiker stuff. thats some dangerous shit. i'm so sure you couldnt do any danger with an open flame, but that toothpaste, you may over brush the persons teeth next to you. Bwahahaha.

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Varius Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 6,890	I had always thought metal utensils were banned, but nope I got a hard as steel sharp fork on my flight to Vegas. You could easily stab through someone's jugular with that in a second. __________________ Skype variuscr - Email varius AT gmail

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