… they took all the confiscated, potentially explosive-carrying water bottles and toothpaste and mixed it in containers and the airports are taking the containers to trash dumps.
From Atlanta to Albuquerque, New Mexico, airport maintenance crews were ordered to dump any confiscated items along with the rest of the garbage.
— CNN.com
If it isn’t explosive, why’d they take it away? And if it is explosive, why are they dumping it in the trash? Or worse, Sky Harbor may be giving explosives to the homeless:
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport planned to give 11 boxes of surrendered items to the city’s human services department, which will give the unopened bottles of shampoo, toothpaste and other items to homeless shelters, airport spokeswoman Lexie Van Haren said.
— CNN.com
The stuff is, as the report states, unopened. So it could be explosives. But I guess if they can give it away, it must not be explosives. So why did they confiscate it?
And we put up with illogical idiotic nonsense in the name of security, why?
Why? Because our only real alternative is to pay record high gas prices to get where we need to go.
I was wondering about that myself.
It’s puzzling, is it not?
Maybe they think passing out free explosives is an inexpensive solution to the homeless problem. Two birds with one tube of toothpaste, as it were.