

New rules limit lithium content in batteries carried on aircraft









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RE: Anyone find this stupid?
By Alexstarfire on 1/1/2008 6:29:32 PM , Rating: 5
Because of how rare it is to have a battery explode, yes I would rely on the passengers being smart enough to put on their masks.

I haven't heard of any public outcry when a plane crashes, cept from the people who were related to the victims in some way. That's understandable though. If the plane crashed because someone was lazy and decided to skip maintenance checks or something, then that's call for a public outcry, but not because something completely random happened like a battery exploding.

They say it's no brain surgery, but even I don't understand what the hell these guys are talking about. I don't understand why we can't have spares just sitting out. From what I recall, the only batteries that exploded were the ones that were IN USE.

Airlines keep getting worse these days. They tell you to be at the airport 90 minutes early for a domestic flight, so I got my GF there about 90 minutes before her flight left. They had 2 people to process perhaps about 50 people, could have been more. Anyways, long story short is that she didn't make her flight and no one wants to pay for it, so it comes out of our pocket. That's just bad business practices. United Airlines isn't getting our business anymore.

How about they stop implementing stupid rules and regulations so that the common person doesn't get screwed over. If a terrorist really wanted to blow up a plane they'd be able to do it with relative ease. It's not like you couldn't just walk through the metal detector with a tube of "toothpaste" in your pocket. They don't force you to turn your pockets inside out or anything. No bomb sniffing dogs, or anything that detects explosive compounds. It's a freakin embarrassment and a waste of time. Only time they are gonna stop something is when the terrorist just happens to be blacklisted. Ohh, that's another thing. Some random people happen to have the same name as terrorist. Glad to know that they'll stop a baby from boarding a plane because he/she is blacklisted. Thanks for saving my live you retards.

RE: Anyone find this stupid?
By Christopher1 on 1/1/08, Rating: 0
RE: Anyone find this stupid?
By Alexstarfire on 1/2/2008 12:20:32 AM , Rating: 4
Too bad a lighter won't set off C4, you need an electrical charge for that. But you basically got my point. They can walk in with any number of explosives and no one would really stop them.

