On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Russell McMahon <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:
> * The airline/customs practice of restricting liquid containers tyo
> 100 mls at the security check BUT of then allowing containers of drink
> of any size to be bought in the departure lounge is beyond laughable.
> The Ozzies aren't laughing. On several recent flights they had their
> own XRay machines at the aircraft gate and were re-confiscating
> unopened soft drinks bought in the departure lounge after the security
> check. Somebody's got to take these rules seriously :-).
>
>

While I think that many of the so-called security precautions are
silly, I don't understand why you consider this one to be "beyond
laughable." Isn't the idea that a container brought from outside might
have ANY kind of liquid in it but if purchased in the "sterile" area,
it is much less likely to be anything other than what it claims to be?
(i.e. it would require an additional effort to smuggle bomb-making
chemicals in through one of the shops in the sterile area)

Sean
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