Plane craziness on Radio 4 this morning.

[thinfourth2]

Bingo

I could go out this afternoon and buy some gas cutting gear and severely weaken a railbridge which is part of the east coast line. Its used by intercity trains and it would kill loads of folk when the bridge failed.

if i fancied a bit of sucide i could steal a truck full of heavy stuff and park in on the rails or ram the airport fence and get in the way of a landing plane.

A nice big fat car bomb on a channel ferry

A nice bomb vest in the airport security check-in

Get a job in Mcdonalds and posion all the customers

[mcdjl]

When they first started with the shoes off nonsense at Stanstead they scanned them separately to bags/coats etc. As a result you took your bag coat off and had them scanned, then got them back and joined a second queue to take your shoes off and have them scanned. I got told off for pointing out how pointless and ineffective that idea was.

[HereBeMonsters]

mcdjl said:

When they first started with the shoes off nonsense at Stanstead they scanned them separately to bags/coats etc. As a result you took your bag coat off and had them scanned, then got them back and joined a second queue to take your shoes off and have them scanned. I got told off for pointing out how pointless and ineffective that idea was.

As did I. Apparently pointing out how easy it would be to move whatever it is you're trying to carry with you from one item to another will get you threatened with arrest.

It probably didn't help that one of our group was wearing a wetsuit, with a rashvest and tweed jacket, and his hand luggage was a bucket and spade.