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  1. 12-04-2002, 04:48 PM #1
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    15,982 Knives seized at Airports over Thanksgiving (pic)



    Karen Swartz and Bob Allison, both with Reagan National Airport, put away some of the knives, scissors, pepper spray and other items seized last week at the airport, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002, in Arlington, Va. The Transportation Safety Administration hopes to better educate people about what they can take onto airplanes by Christmas, when air travel will be complicated by new gate check procedures and many more checked bags screened for explosives.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
    Why are they carrying open knives in a cardboard box? I feel sorry for the green FBI agent that has to do all the grunt work like carrying boxes....
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    Wow.. we have a lot of terrorists here.
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    my question: Why are all those knifes open?!
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    oh come on, we're all taught from the time we're little kids to never run through the airport with scissors
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    Originally posted by mojo
    oh come on, we're all taught from the time we're little kids to never run through the airport with scissors
    But those were knives....so it's ok...
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    Originally posted by GraingerGuy
    But those were knives....so it's ok...
    not all were knives.
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    the stat that shocked me from the weekend air travel was that passengers waited an average of TEN MINUTES at each security checkpoint.

    last year, on the monday morning after thanksgiving, i waited for TWO AND A HALF HOURS in dtw

    obviously, despite having to confiscate all those knives, they moved people through there damn fast
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    Wonder what they do with them all? Probably some security guy is making a killing on ebay!
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    Originally posted by revil
    my question: Why are all those knifes open?!
    that was my first question as soon as i saw this image. prob cuz it looks a lot more impressive if the knives are open.
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    i would never give up any of my knives, i'd probably put it into like a storage or some **** at the airport if they tried to take it away
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    Originally posted by cheapbast@rd


    that was my first question as soon as i saw this image. prob cuz it looks a lot more impressive if the knives are open.
    lol they gotta make up for those pissed off travlers some how

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    Well... at least it's nice that they've beefed up security. Last year over christmas, I accidentally brought a sharpened dagger onto the plane with me on my way back to school (I got it for a friend of mine and a sibling put it into the wrong bag). Didn't get stopped or asked anything by anyone. Found out after I got back when I unpacked.
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