Patriot Act won't allow people to bring their own honey roasted nuts??

The pilot could be allergic and be force fed ;-)

 

You'll be happy to know I brought a can of honey roasted peanuts on a flight
that ended not three hours ago. I am still a free man.

miguel

 

This is complete insanity. What can an airline passenger possibly use

Where is this documented?

 

You wish. I once broke into the Louvre, overpowered the security guards
Because I Had No Time To Explain and disarmed a bomb left by a Terrorist
Cell.

With a pack of Captain's Wafers.

Sincerely,
McGyver.

 

To cause anaphylactic shock in a co-passenger with a peanut allergy.

Such a passenger would inform the airline, which would avoid the serving of
peanuts on the flight. How can the passenger avoid danger from peanut
products brought aborad by other passengers? She can't, directly; instead,
the airline bans other passengers bringing those peanut products aboard.

Thus, the passenger doesn't go into shock, and the flight doesn't have to
make an emergency landing, disrupting connection and travel plans for the
passengers aboard as well as those awaiting the equipment and crew at their
destination.

This was a rule well before the Patriot Act.

 

I guess I'll have to start smuggling peanuts in my nose.

 

Hey, some people are so allergic to peanuts (seriously) that
the slightest exposure will send them into shock. Hard to
call an amulance from 36,000 feet.

Thus airlines are very careful with peanuts. An allergic
person can refuse them but if the person sitting next to
them has them and sneezes....

The result is that the airlines don't serve them and they
do NOT want you bringing your own on board.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Patriot Act.

---- Paul J. Gans

 

Obviously a major security breach.

I predict an investigation by a Senate subcommittee and the firing of
at least a dozen people!

 

If so, that will be a dozen more than have been fired as a result of
intelligence gathering and analysis failures concerning 9-11.

No higher official has been canned, AFAIK. No Bush people, no Clinton
leftovers, nobody.

Instead, those same government agencies have had their powers increased,
their leaders' places in the Washington bureaucracy solidified, their
openness to public scrutiny slammed shut.

Isn't that strange to anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

Corry
--
It Came From C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net

See Huntsville's Night of the Upside-Down Aurora.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/images/upside_down_aurora00.jpg

 

When all's said and done, history books will record the
worst terrorist attacks in the history of the United States
took place under the watch of one George W. Bush.

His presidency has been an unqualified disaster in every
way -- domestic as well as foreign policy. Yet every time
I see him giving a speech, his Xanax-intoxicated chest is
just a little more puffed out, like an overinflated balloon.
He really is completely out of touch with the American
people, and reality.

Rick

 

Plenty of airlines serve peanuts every day.

miguel

 

When all's said and done, history books will record the

Isn't this coming from a foreigner? Quite arrogant and amusing that you would
think such a thing if you are. He may be out of touch for you but certainly not
with many, if not most Americans.

 

I'm in California. In fact Bush is flying into my area later today,
giving a speech for his $1000/plate rich buddies, then immediately
flying out again. He doesn't want to spend any time seeing the
results of his economic policies on my neighborhood.

Rick

 

"My neighborhood?" So do you represent everyones view in your neighborhood? You
say he is "completely out of touch with the American people." You should
restrict your opinions to yourself or the side of the political spectrum that
you represent because surely you can not and do not represent all Americans.

 

Obviously. It's my opinion, and you know what they say
about opinions.

Rick

 

Two questions:
1) This "peanut allergy" thing seems to be the "disease d'jour"
these days. Anyone have a stat on the actual incidence?
2) Isn't it true that for just about any product, somebody
somewhere is allergic to it? Where does it end?

 

About 1 in every 200 people are allergic to peanuts to some degree. So
chances are on a full plane there will be one person.

 

Ny understanding is that it is rare but very severe. I hope there is
some progress to help those with this allergy because peanut products
are in so many goods. And they aren't going away unless Important People
become affected, of course.

You'd think http://www.peanutallergy.com/ would be a good resource but
the web page is teh suck.

http://www.allergyasthma.on.ca/peanut1.htm is more informative.

Corry
--
It Came From C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net

This picture, made from public property, earned me a visit from
corporate security officers. Apparently Vulcan's restoration is a Trade
Secret. Or they thought I was going to kidnap and molest it.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/images/vulcan_restoration_ir00.jpg

 

Fine. They will eventually get sued. But the point
is that this has nothing to do with the Patriot Act.

---- Paul J. Gans

 

This was probably instigated by the airlines so they would have less
competition with their new enterprise as a seller of snacks and meals.