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The word is security theatre, and the drinks measure is another scam to prop up airport concessions. And they are banning curries too, cans of beans and soups. Its a scam to reduce your luggage allowance by stealth, and make you 're-buy' liguids or lunches. One cannot easilly see the threat of a take away tub of beef vindaloo and rice - but banned apparently.
Most importantly, it makes duty free booze bought from OUTSIDE the airport really expensive, because it counts in your luggage. Very anti-competitive and underhanded.
As stated previously , they could easilly have a funnel, and you tip a swig of water down it - testing water is so easy!. What they don't say, is that you can buy a bar wand based scanner ([SIZE=-1]spectrally resolved laser absorption[/SIZE]) , squeeze the trigger and get a beep if its water or something else. Originally built for sports grounds to weed out water from alcohol enhanced bottles. Easy as pis.. , but noooo, they want you to buy.
Lets put this myth to bed. You can board the plane with a gallon liquid container, and a 12 inch cake knife from the concessions - they won't blink. It is not a liquid ban, but a ban on non-airport-bought carry on liquids passing the security barrier, because the security attendants are
1) Inconpetent or cant be trusted
2) Time/Money based - too lazy to scan your stuff - cost saving?
3) Even when you cop a dose of cancer causing backscatter ionisation that will not only mark you if you have explosives, but also MNDA or other drugs. So why the liquid ban if backscattered????
4) Tollway deal. Paid to pervert and maim efficient traffic flows, so a third party can line their pockets
Now, if your $97? departure tax is not paying for a real service, it is a con.
At least the Customs and AQUIS people on inbound are smart and reasonable and allowed to think, and empowered to act. I want the scanner chimps to have the same brains, rather than say, oh, those brass safe keys come out too black on the xray machine, and will have to go into luggage type statements when it is final call.
Or they could have a acetone trained sniffer dog. Better yet, a drinks conveyor belt - A Mt Franklins water bottle, or a bottle of vegemite is an improbable vector. Curries banned - , looks like 'Balmy Army' bashing.
Buy Buy and Buy NOT. One will take in a whole chilled pineapple, and chilled oranges, and with no decent knife, make a sticky mess somewhere, with a slice of chilled watermellon. I'll be tipping 100 ml out and freezing the mt franklins into solid ice- sorry Mr, it not a liquid. I suspect they will be ignorant of the chemistry vector. Cups and flasks allowed. Goody, can boil some water with a heater coil, and instant Ramen noodle soup.
Normally I drain my 2litres of duty free into a plastic bottle, saving 2kg of GLASS. Now I can't. Asian friends used to take an esky of abalone or prime rib onboard as hand luggage, but I guess primary industry bashing is back again. **** Smith is needed back, to bang a few heads methinks.
My advise is to invest in apples, an apple peeler(allowed) and bananas.
Fruit is cheaper than airport junk food cough, unless bought at the airport, where it triples in price, over the gate. <end of rant>:-|
Most importantly, it makes duty free booze bought from OUTSIDE the airport really expensive, because it counts in your luggage. Very anti-competitive and underhanded.
As stated previously , they could easilly have a funnel, and you tip a swig of water down it - testing water is so easy!. What they don't say, is that you can buy a bar wand based scanner ([SIZE=-1]spectrally resolved laser absorption[/SIZE]) , squeeze the trigger and get a beep if its water or something else. Originally built for sports grounds to weed out water from alcohol enhanced bottles. Easy as pis.. , but noooo, they want you to buy.
Lets put this myth to bed. You can board the plane with a gallon liquid container, and a 12 inch cake knife from the concessions - they won't blink. It is not a liquid ban, but a ban on non-airport-bought carry on liquids passing the security barrier, because the security attendants are
1) Inconpetent or cant be trusted
2) Time/Money based - too lazy to scan your stuff - cost saving?
3) Even when you cop a dose of cancer causing backscatter ionisation that will not only mark you if you have explosives, but also MNDA or other drugs. So why the liquid ban if backscattered????
4) Tollway deal. Paid to pervert and maim efficient traffic flows, so a third party can line their pockets
Now, if your $97? departure tax is not paying for a real service, it is a con.
At least the Customs and AQUIS people on inbound are smart and reasonable and allowed to think, and empowered to act. I want the scanner chimps to have the same brains, rather than say, oh, those brass safe keys come out too black on the xray machine, and will have to go into luggage type statements when it is final call.
Or they could have a acetone trained sniffer dog. Better yet, a drinks conveyor belt - A Mt Franklins water bottle, or a bottle of vegemite is an improbable vector. Curries banned - , looks like 'Balmy Army' bashing.
Buy Buy and Buy NOT. One will take in a whole chilled pineapple, and chilled oranges, and with no decent knife, make a sticky mess somewhere, with a slice of chilled watermellon. I'll be tipping 100 ml out and freezing the mt franklins into solid ice- sorry Mr, it not a liquid. I suspect they will be ignorant of the chemistry vector. Cups and flasks allowed. Goody, can boil some water with a heater coil, and instant Ramen noodle soup.
Normally I drain my 2litres of duty free into a plastic bottle, saving 2kg of GLASS. Now I can't. Asian friends used to take an esky of abalone or prime rib onboard as hand luggage, but I guess primary industry bashing is back again. **** Smith is needed back, to bang a few heads methinks.
My advise is to invest in apples, an apple peeler(allowed) and bananas.
Fruit is cheaper than airport junk food cough, unless bought at the airport, where it triples in price, over the gate. <end of rant>:-|
I don't think so
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