TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades 378
coondoggie writes "Some of the travel recommendations posted on the Transportation Security Administration's blog seem stupefying obvious. This week's, entitled: 'Leave Your Grenades at Home' seemed like a no brainer, but alas. The TSA wrote about grenades in particular: Year to date, the agency's officers have discovered: 43 grenades in carry-on baggage and 40 grenades in checked baggage."
For those of you that don't RTFA... (Score:5, Informative)
a majority of the confiscated grenades are fake, replicas or otherwise inert.
Fuck Network World (Score:5, Informative)
Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... (Score:5, Informative)
And yet, it still then didn't add up to a statistically significant enough threat to bother with additional security.
Simple.... all those grenades....0 of them in the hands of terrorists. That should tell you this is a stupid issue.
Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... (Score:4, Informative)
... and a quick Google search says your wrong.
The presence of lead or other heavy elements was not required for visualization. Fragments as small as 0.5 mm were easily detected if there was no overlying bone. [aappublications.org]
And a somewhat NSFW link with some glass objects that shouldn't be there [x-raytechn...aining.org].
Density makes a difference. It won't jump out like metal, but it should be visible. here are some examples and notes [x-rayscreener.com]
Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... (Score:5, Informative)
Furthermore, if I'm reading the numbers right, 1 live grenade out of 84 found - and that one was an accident by a travelling solider. The rest were completely inert and only look dangerous.
Re:Complete Failure (Score:4, Informative)
In both cases it was not the passengers subduing the attackers which prevented the deaths of those onboard... but instead luck that neither device went off.
Of course this happened AFTER he got through TSA screening.
Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... (Score:5, Informative)
I'm afraid your lovely theory is ruined by the history of hijacking.
El Al Flight 426 hijacking [wikipedia.org]
Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. - Aircraft Hijacking [fbi.gov]
Hijacked Iraq Jet Crashes, Killing 62 : Two Hurl Grenades, Force Airliner Down in Saudi Arabia [latimes.com]
There are more.
Re:Complete Failure (Score:5, Informative)
In both cases it was not the passengers subduing the attackers which prevented the deaths of those onboard... but instead luck that neither device went off.
Of course this happened AFTER he got through TSA screening.
Not technically correct in either case:
The "Underware bomber" (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) was coming from Amsterdam.
The "Shoe Bomber" (Richard Colvin Reid) was inbound from Paris.
So neither one had been screened by US TSA.