Beware the blue hairs!!

Check out this list of banned items.

• Items Banned on Airlines
  
  Previously forbidden, carry-on or checked luggage:
  
  toy guns
  fireworks
  explosives
  butane lighter refills
  paints
  bleaches
  
  Newly forbidden carry-on items:
  
  knives, scissors or shears of any kind
  nail clippers
  straight-edged and certain other razors
  box and carpet cutters
  ice picks
  "cutting instruments" of any kind
  
  Banned by some foreign airlines and airports:
  
  darts
  baseball bats
  pool cues
  knitting needles

Do any of them seem strange to you? I understand most of them, like 'cutting instruments'...
But knitting needles? Have you ever heard of a plane hijacked by knitting needles? Granted, I can see the possibilities. All the blue hairs rise up in revolt... But is it necessary to ban them?

Nail clippers? What are you going to do with nail clippers? This one, I admit, I cannot see the possibilities. Chase the stewardess while clicking your clippers at her?? Would she even run? And if she did, wouldn't the passengers just laugh?


There was another list that banned lighters and strike anywhere matches -- but you could have up to four packs of safety matches. Are those the ones that come in the fold over case? I cannot believe they are making it so difficult to grab a smoke. And are safety matches really that much safer if you are going to set something on fire? Where is the logic?

Update: I just read something about all lighters being prohibited -- even from checked baggage. What the hell?

No wonder more people are driving nowadays. If it wasn't 17 and a 1/2 hours, I'd drive too.

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