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June 6, 2013 10:09 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ItxgQWGFsSY/story01.htm
TSA chickens out, won't allow items that don't threaten airplanes backon-board
The TSA has backed down from its moment of sanity in which it decided to allow golf-clubs, small knives and other items that pose no threat to airplanes back in the sky. The TSA's move had been a welcome effort to clarify that it was attempting to prevent terrorists from crashing airplanes, not prevent bodily harm to passengers (in order to do the latter, it would have had to also ban socks full of quarters, large booze-bottles from the duty-free, and innumerable other objects capable of harming crew and passengers).Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ItxgQWGFsSY/story01.htm
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