Curries a no-no for U.S. flights
Happy New Year 2010 everyone! Here’s one to start the new year.
WASHINGTON DC, JANUARY 1 - Keeping passengers rooted to their seats and away from their hand luggage won’t be the only thing preventing terrorists from operating on U.S. airlines.
A new security ruling by the U.S. Transport Security Administration (TSA) has determined that spice-laden food or drinks will not be allowed to be carried by passengers or served in their inflight meals.
The change comes only days after the TSA released its latest ruling for safety guidelines over United States airspace, limiting passengers to their seats in the last hour of a landing flight.
According to a recent statement by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, airlines entering U.S. airspace from affected where spice was known to be in higher quantities -such as Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Malaysia and Thailand- ran higher risks of inflight detonations than many other countries in the rest of the world.
“We have determined that certain foods can trigger explosive chemical reactions from within, and not just without,” Janet was quoted as saying. “We are also making sure that flights heading into the United States from now on will serve safer foods, and abstain from the usage of household spices that can be used in the likely event of an attack, including salt and pepper.”
According to Homeland Security, a terrorist can detonate an ingested supply of PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) by simply consuming a certain type of food, causing the digested contents to chemically react with the explosives.
“We would like to think that we’re practicing a measure of prevention being better than the cure,” Janet was known to have said in her statement. “Terrorists around the world are getting more and more resourceful, and we want to nip them in the bud; especially if its a bud of tumeric.”
In addition to the latest ruling, the TSA will also be keeping a close eye on passengers who use the bathroom during an ongoing flight, and all commercial aircraft entering U.S. airspace will be required to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in airline toilet booths.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:30 am
They should provide bedpans and urinal cans so passengers who are in a personal emergency situation can do it in their seats.
I’m glad my five-year visa to the U.S. has expired, don’t wish to have to go there.
BTW. Isn’t not allowing people to have a shit or a pee against human rights?