All liquids you say?
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What if we kissed ๐๐๐ over a jug of airport jungle juice?
What if we held hands over the burning chemical reaction of the fluids dumped in there mixing together?
Okay. unzip
But, if they're explosive, wouldn't emptying your explosive with a soup of everyone else's explosives, be a bad idea? Unless.... is all this "security theater" just for show??
E: grammar
The point isn't that liquids are explosive, the point is that water messes up the explosives detection. It's "liquids are not allowed, because water is a false positive for explosives and we want to avoid the false positive".
That's why it's starting to get allowed in many airports - they updated their detectors to newer technology where water is no longer a false positive.
Nobody thinks your bottle of water is a bomb.
According to several TSA agents in my travels to and around the US, at least, when I asked why my water had to be discarded, they all said variations of the same thing, "it could be an explosive". And the news broadcasts I've seen when this measure was first implemented were telling people that these "new types of explosives" look like water and are hidden inside water bottles, and the water can even be sipped on without harm to the person from the heavier-than-water liquid explosive. So, while it may have been a lie, it was one that approved the measures. "False positives" were never communicated.
That makes sense and would almost reassure me if they didn't have a 95% failure rate in tests. The data is super old but I can't find anything to suggest it's improved since then.
We called that Hairy Buffalo back in the day
Oh darn guess I'll have to pour my separate bottles of bleach and ammonia in there since they're not allowed past security checkpoint.
Thinking the same thing. Oh shoot! I need to pour my bromine out! Proceeds to dump 1 gallon of fuming bromine into liquid receptacle.
Ultimate King Cup
Have you heard of bartender's mat?
I haven't but can only imagine
Liquids may be dangerous, so let's mix them all together!
The risk is explosive so mixing them with other fluids is probably not a problem.
They are not dangerous, that's not the reason they are not allowed.
Boston Airport won't even sell you a beer before 11. Damn puritan masshole laws
That's pure evil
Calgary has a liquor store in the domestic terminal after security. Not a duty free, a liquor store. Just in case you want a 5th during take off.
When I was flying out of Orlando for a work trip last year I was really struggling to find somewhere selling coffee after security. I finally found it tucked in the back of a concerningly well-stocked bar
Sure beats buying 10 tiny bottles before the flight.
My hometown has that as well. We've got some of the cheapest booze in the country because of how our taxes work
When the terrorists empty their liquid explosives into there, youโll get to smell like piss while the flesh burns off of your bones.
Are swamp water and jungle juice the same thing?
I think swamp water is soda only.
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