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Airport Security
Mar/31/08 10:05
I arrived at the Las Vegas airport this
morning, and after using curbside check-in,
I proceeded to the very long
pre-fast-pass-at-Disneyland line for the
security check-in. After waiting in the
long tail of the line for about 5 minutes,
I then entered the section of the line that
snaked left, then right, then left and so
on no less than nine times. I estimated the
number of people in line for the C gates to
be around 300-400 people. And there was a
faster-moving line identical to mine for
the D gates. So there were approximately
600-800 people in this very close area. And
we haven't had our bags checked yet.
So here's my thought for the day: what if terrorists don't care about actually taking over a plane now? What if they just want to kill people? Now we've created this huge labyrinthine line that collects unchecked people in an area where there's no escape. Some man (or woman. Terrorist groups are equal-opportunity employers) with dreams of a better afterlife and a whole lot of C4 strapped to his/her chest walks in and you can probably guess what could happen. Especially if these people coordinated these attacks on several congested airports on a Christian holiday weekend. Boom.
And I'm probably going to get SSSS (a code indicating that I'm a high-level security threat requiring extensive screening) on my boarding pass from now on just for writing this.
So here's my thought for the day: what if terrorists don't care about actually taking over a plane now? What if they just want to kill people? Now we've created this huge labyrinthine line that collects unchecked people in an area where there's no escape. Some man (or woman. Terrorist groups are equal-opportunity employers) with dreams of a better afterlife and a whole lot of C4 strapped to his/her chest walks in and you can probably guess what could happen. Especially if these people coordinated these attacks on several congested airports on a Christian holiday weekend. Boom.
And I'm probably going to get SSSS (a code indicating that I'm a high-level security threat requiring extensive screening) on my boarding pass from now on just for writing this.
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