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Originally Posted by NatCh
Please don't encourage them ... or give them any ideas that won't actually make a difference, but look good on paper -- they come up with enough of those on their own.
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I'll give you the short version of one of my many travel tales.
Long before 9/11, trying to mail something in Newark while connecting to Europe. Can't from inside security. I groused, went out, mailed the envelopes, came in, and questioned the guy watching the scanning machines.
Me - "Why can't you mail"
Security expert "big security risk".
Me - "But I'm already IN the secure area, where is the risk".
SE - "No, big risk, can't do it"
Me - "You know, in Heathrow, they consider that big trash can right beside your desk a big risk - you throw stuff on the ground and it gets picked up immediately by the airport cleaning people. Worried about bombs in the trash cans".
The next time I went through security at Newark they had moved the trash can.