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cszar2001 · Sep 29, 2004, 01:13 PM

No comment: passenger with axe

Landos Mustache · Sep 29, 2004, 01:37 PM

Oh I thought this was about WEP and my basestation.

RAILhead · Sep 29, 2004, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Oh I thought this was about WEP and my basestation.

Crap, me too.

Maury

killer_735 · Sep 29, 2004, 01:51 PM

"In the event of your total lack of sanity, an axe will drop down from you overhead rack. At such a time, please put on the ski mask that came in your welcome kit and just go pretty much batsh!t on whoever happens to be around. The FAA will learn someday, we're certain."

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Oh I thought this was about WEP and my basestation.

Me, too.

I'm sure no one will make it in there with an axe

-t

Landos Mustache · Sep 29, 2004, 03:00 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Me, too.

I'm sure no one will make it in there with an axe

-t

I almost took an axe to mine once...

nredman · Sep 29, 2004, 04:38 PM

i'd bet this thread would get more hits if people knew the AXE part

i was thinking airport extreme...send it to networking

MindFad · Sep 29, 2004, 04:40 PM

Why would you bring your bass guitar on a plane?

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 04:43 PM

What's wrong with AXE on board ?

http://www.theaxeeffect.com/flash.html

-t

storer · Sep 29, 2004, 04:52 PM

I hate airport security. i missed a flight last week because i didn't have "photo ID." WTF? im 14, where do i get photo id from?! i ended up getting through on a later flight because the security dude had the rules on, but i was bloody pissed off.

macaddict0001 · Sep 29, 2004, 04:59 PM

you can get photo id as a school id most schools have them.

as for airport security I have one word oxymoron.

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 05:03 PM

Originally posted by storer:
I hate airport security. i missed a flight last week because i didn't have "photo ID." WTF?

Dude, you should crawl back under your rock.
Where have you been the last 3 years ?

-t

Landos Mustache · Sep 29, 2004, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by storer:
I hate airport security. i missed a flight last week because i didn't have "photo ID." WTF? im 14, where do i get photo id from?! i ended up getting through on a later flight because the security dude had the rules on, but i was bloody pissed off.

Passport perhaps?

When I was in Florida 10 years ago I totally walked by all airport security (metal detector and x-ray) by mistake. Once I realized it I was like.. meh and got on the plane unchecked.

Beewee · Sep 29, 2004, 05:11 PM

That's what happens when you are looking too closely at something.
Airport security is looking for people with bombs in their shoes and box cutters in their carry on. When you're in that mode its pretty easy to over look a guy carrying an axe...right?

tomra · Sep 29, 2004, 05:29 PM

Smaller airports in Europe does not check for anything unless the personel sense something "funny" going on. This guy was not a terrorist but a refugee with a big mental problem...

storer · Sep 29, 2004, 05:36 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Passport perhaps?

I wasn't going international, and never had before. oh well. I got through. They looked at my medicare card and then at my fatehrs license. Then they let me through. That isn't even the rule. All they need is to see the parent's photo ID.

Gankdawg · Sep 30, 2004, 07:04 AM

Originally posted by storer:
I hate airport security. i missed a flight last week because i didn't have "photo ID." WTF? im 14, where do i get photo id from?! i ended up getting through on a later flight because the security dude had the rules on, but i was bloody pissed off.

Why are you surprised you need photo ID to get thru airport security? It's been that way for 3 years now. It's not exactly a secret.....

MilkmanDan · Sep 30, 2004, 07:12 AM

Originally posted by tomra:
Smaller airports in Europe does not check for anything unless the personel sense something "funny" going on. This guy was not a terrorist but a refugee with a big mental problem...

Airport Security Guard Sense tingling....

They took special time out of their days to spend 5 minutes looking over my Powerbook. It was as though they had never seen a laptop before.

andi*pandi · Sep 30, 2004, 07:21 AM

Norway, people. This happened in Norway. When we hear about someone in the US with an axe, then we can complain about our system. Now we can just mock theirs.

And if Storer is a child (sorry, under 18) travelling with parents, he does not need a photo ID. But it would behoove his parents to carry his birth certificate or soc. security card, to prove they're his parents and not kidnappers. We traveled to Canada with our 2 yr old and the airport folks and border guards repeatedly asked, "and is this your son?" to which we had his birth certificate. Well, I could have pointed out my stretch marks, but the birth certificate was easier.

macroy · Sep 30, 2004, 08:23 AM

bogus. all bogus. It may be a SENSE of more security. But now we have thousands of people bottlenecked at screening stations.... all's a terrorist have to do is pick the 5 busiest airports, and set a bomb off when he's in the middle of that line...

cszar2001 · Sep 30, 2004, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by macroy:
bogus. all bogus. It may be a SENSE of more security. But now we have thousands of people bottlenecked at screening stations.... all's a terrorist have to do is pick the 5 busiest airports, and set a bomb off when he's in the middle of that line...

Not so loud!!
The enemy is listening - or reading another Tom Clancy Novel.

scaught · Sep 30, 2004, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by macroy:
bogus. all bogus. It may be a SENSE of more security. But now we have thousands of people bottlenecked at screening stations.... all's a terrorist have to do is pick the 5 busiest airports, and set a bomb off when he's in the middle of that line...

and your suggestion for a better way, good sir?

Powaqqatsi · Sep 30, 2004, 11:20 AM

semi O/T: Does anybody just HATE the violation of the Shengen agreement that you get in European airports these days ? I think it's disgusting.

turtle777 · Sep 30, 2004, 12:01 PM

Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
semi O/T: Does anybody just HATE the violation of the Shengen agreement that you get in European airports these days ? I think it's disgusting.

Elaborate !
Do you mean that you still have to show ID on inner-European flights ?

-t

mdc · Sep 30, 2004, 12:09 PM

"From the new year these small regional airports have to have security checkpoints," Mr Walla said. - from axe article.

what's wrong with today? why can't the airports have security today? everyone has a few more months to take axes on board with them.

Powaqqatsi · Sep 30, 2004, 12:30 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Elaborate !
Do you mean that you still have to show ID on inner-European flights ?

-t

Yep, that's what I meant.

Scotttheking · Sep 30, 2004, 01:38 PM

Originally posted by killer_735:
"In the event of your total lack of sanity, an axe will drop down from you overhead rack. At such a time, please put on the ski mask that came in your welcome kit and just go pretty much batsh!t on whoever happens to be around. The FAA will learn someday, we're certain."

What exactly does the FAA have to do with Norway?

G4ME · Sep 30, 2004, 02:04 PM

When I took a small charter from Vagas to Marble Canyon when i rafted the colorado, it was my dad and I and the two pilots in a small 6 passenger caravan no security what so ever, i had a knife on me and we just boarded the plane. And when the picked us up again the desert doesn't have that good of security as well. This was the summer after 9-11 too.

My uncle is a private pilot, the only clearance he needs to fly is from the tower.

cszar2001 · Sep 30, 2004, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by G4ME:
When I took a small charter from Vagas to Marble Canyon when i rafted the colorado, it was my dad and I and the two pilots in a small 6 passenger caravan no security what so ever, i had a knife on me and we just boarded the plane. And when the picked us up again the desert doesn't have that good of security as well. This was the summer after 9-11 too.

My uncle is a private pilot, the only clearance he needs to fly is from the tower.

That`s why all this talk about security is a load of BS - but people desperately want to believe it anyway.

storer · Sep 30, 2004, 04:09 PM

Originally posted by Gankdawg:
Why are you surprised you need photo ID to get thru airport security? It's been that way for 3 years now. It's not exactly a secret.....

It wasn't to get through security, it was just to pick up my ticket. It's not even a big airport. They don't check your hand baggage and the just ask if you are carryin anything dangerous.

PacHead · Sep 30, 2004, 04:21 PM

The psycho axe dude was a muslim wannabe imam. How surprising.