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TSA Declares: Lighters Now Good; Water Still Bad
by Mike Richard
To recap, via Upgrade: Travel Better:
The TSA has ruled that lighters will once again be legal to take onto airplanes, effective August 4.
Bottled water is still illegal, but a container containing a flammable liquid is permissible. That’s freedom, baby.
Mmkay. I’m not even sure how to comment anymore on the yo-yo policy changes the TSA have enacted over the past year. They’re starting to make my head hurt.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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July 25th, 2007
I can’t even think of a legitimate reason to have a lighter on a plane. Smoking isn’t allowed on most flights to, from or within Western countries … what would anyone want one for?
Surely smokers can wait until they have collected their checked luggage?
July 26th, 2007
It’s beyond comprehension really. I stopped trying to apply logic to the TSA’s policies long ago. It hurts my head too much.
All I can picture is the terrorists slyly hiding in the bathroom with the old bowling ball style bomb with the lit wick on one end.