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| DHS bans lighters on airplanes |
| 2005-03-01 |
| WASHINGTON - Airline passengers can no longer bring cigarette lighters onto planes or in any secure areas, the Homeland Security Department announced. Lighters were added to the prohibited items list because of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which President George W. Bush signed on Dec. 17. The Transportation Security Administration, the agency charged with prohibiting dangerous items on aircraft, said Monday that lighters will be banned from planes and areas beyond security checkpoints at airports. "By creating policy to add lighters to the Prohibited Items List we are closing a potential vulnerability in air travel security," said Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Rear Adm. David M. Stone. The TSA said butane, absorbed-fuel (Zippo-type), electric/battery-powered and |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #14 they better not come for my redmans, i hate asking for a spit cup tho. if ima ever on a hijack plane first thing ima do is go for the eyes of the leader |
| Posted by: half 2005-03-01 12:46:06 PM |
| #13 That's reassuring. Was he wearing a turban, or was she? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-01 11:27:33 AM |
| #12 2b - you won't find matches in an airport bar at JFK or LaGuardia. They've banned smoking. This pisses me off, since I'm a smoker. But I heard somewhere that they will still allow you to carry matches. Just put your lighter in your checked bag. It's all arbitrary anyways. I once saw some guy getting on a plane with a knife. Granted, it was "only" a serrated butter knife, which he told the HSA person he needed to cut the cheese he had in his bag (which he showed her). She let him take the knife onto the plane. |
| Posted by: growler 2005-03-01 11:19:58 AM |
| #11 I prefer the use of a butane lighter to an oxy-acetylene torch to light my cigarettes . The extra baggage with a oxy-acetylene torch just infuriates airport security and knackers me out carrying the damn thing :P but hey its a cool fashion accessory guarenteed to impress the ladies in the perfume shop. |
| Posted by: MacNails 2005-03-01 8:24:01 AM |
| #10 Yeah, I've noticed a lot of slag landing inside the planes and airports where I travel. |
| Posted by: Quana 2005-03-01 8:04:43 AM |
| #9 Years ago,a wielder at one of the local copper mines was useing a cutting torch,a piece of slag landed on a butane lighter in his pants pocket.Damn near blew his leg off. |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-03-01 7:22:19 AM |
| #8 come one now, this is hardly a major inconvenience to close a loophole in security. Suck it up and grab a pack of matches from the closest airport bar. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-03-01 7:04:50 AM |
| #7 This is from the same group that will not profile. It's makes about as much sense. I don't smoke but if I still did I would be unhappy. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-01 3:44:14 AM |
| #6 Just carry a battle laser to light it. It won't be on the list so they will let you right though. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-03-01 1:32:49 AM |
| #5 Bomb-a-rama, that's truly remarkable. The only glitch is that there are airports that do not have readily accessible opening for sunrays to pass through. I should also skip potentially cloudy days in my travel plans, eh? ;-) |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-03-01 1:11:33 AM |
| #4 When I smoked many years ago, I use to occasionally bring along a small polished parabolic mirror novelty item (don't remember what kind of metal it was made of) that had a small flip-up doodad in the middle that could hold a cigarette. Stick the cigarette in, point the mirror at the sun, and the smoke would be lit in under ten seconds. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-01 1:07:07 AM |
| #3 Arab science... barometric phosphorus. I guess I'll buy throw-away lighters for trips and pack the Zippo I've had for the last 13-14 years in checked luggage. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-01 12:59:15 AM |
| #2 You can make a crude but potentially damaging incendary out of a butane lighter. Curiously about a year ago I was forced to take matches out of my checked luggage (on an Emirates flight)and put them in my hand luggage. I have no idea why. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-03-01 12:47:06 AM |
| #1 That is a tad too far. I am a smoker. If I do transfers on my trip, how I am going to lit a smoke? Can I still carry matches? |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-03-01 12:32:34 AM |