Comments on: TSA Allows Turbans, Continues Ban on Shoes

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:33:54 +0000

I have been wondering how Sikh men do on the requirement to carry a (symbolic) weapon.

By: Grewgills

Grewgills — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:06:22 +0000

A few years back I traveled with a filipina nun in who was in her 70s and had not been in public sans wimple in nearly 50 years. She is sort of a small filipina Mother Mary Stigmata. The TSA officers demanded she remove it to be searched. She laid into them pretty good and they allowed her on without searching her head gear. This was the first and only time I have seen the TSA back down. It still makes me smile when I think about it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:21:06 +0000

James,
How dare you criticize the all-knowing TSA - it is a federal entity - they cannot possibly do wrong.

There is nothing more dangerous in this world than 3.5 oz of shaving cream or shampoo except possibly 4 oz of shaving cream or shampoo.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:14:16 +0000

It doesn't take that long to retrieve your checked bag! Minutes!

Have you ever actually been to an airport? It takes anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes or more to check the bag in and a minimum of 30 minutes to get the bag on the other end. Doing that twice on a short trip is a huge inconvenience.

My wife and I traveled using one small suitcase that fits into the overhead bin plus a laptop bag. That's pretty much the standard business travel allotment and well within what the airlines permit.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:47:05 +0000

Why is it so many people never want to check baggage?

Instead they pull their grossly oversized "carry-on" into the plane, and then proceed to try and stuff it into the too-small overhead bin after running into people's shins on the way down the aisle. They take up the whole bin and after landing need 10 feet around them to pull it out again, many times hitting some poor unfortunate guy in the head as they do it.

People! It doesn't take that long to retrieve your checked bag! Minutes! You are not better than everyone else. Give us all a break. Check your darn luggage! (and take along your shaving kit)