Yet Another Way to Beat Airport Security

Apparently the duty free shops have convinced the TSA (and foreign equivalents) to allow unlimited quantities of liquor, water, and so forth from outside the security checkpoint to be carried onto the planes provided they’re sealed in a special clear plastic baggie at purchase and not removed from the bag before you clear security. I have just one word to say about this incredibly tight security: Tylenol.

Now not that I actually believe the government’s claim that terrorists are capable of mixing yogurt, hair gel, and diet coke to create a bomb, (but only if there’s more than 3.5 oz of each) but if they were, there’s now a huge gaping hole in the security cordon.

Here’s how you do it. Put the bad liquid in an Evian bottle (or toothpaste tube, or hand cream pump, or whatever) and seal it up. Frankly just closing it with the cap would probably be enough, but it’s not like resealing it with plastic is all that hard. Certainly the terrorist Lex Luthors capable of mixing high explosives in an airplane lavatory can figure out how to get toothpaste (or plastic explosive) back into a tube.

Put the tube on the shelf along with the regular toothpaste. Pick it up. Take it to the counter. Pay for it. The clerk will happily seal the explosives into a nice little plastic baggie that you can walk right through security. Boom boom. Everyone’s dead.

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