TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes 595
yali writes "The U.S. Transportation and Security Administration has issued new rules limiting travel with lithium batteries. As of January 1, no spare lithium batteries are allowed in checked luggage. Batteries carried in the cabin are subject to limitations on per-battery and total lithium content, and spare batteries must have the terminals covered. If you're returning home from the holidays with new toys, be sure to check out the new restrictions before you pack."
New rule (Score:5, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:3, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, they don't want terrorists buying black market Sony batteries that will explode during the flight.
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:5, Funny)
which leads me to wonder if the per capita risk of hijacking is any different now versus what it was back then.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes. I'd love to see a terrorist managing to take control of a plane for more than 5 minutes if other passengers had guns.
Stop allowing humans on flights (Score:5, Funny)
The TSA found the terrorist instruction manual (Score:5, Funny)
To blow up an airplane
Need the TSA to explain it, Nutrition-Facts-style (Score:5, Funny)
But, before they're allowed to get all legalese on us, there should also be a brevity requirement. Like the Nutrition Facts on the side of your average can of soup, probably one of the best examples I can think of where a government requirement *didn't* turn into 4 paragraphs of fine print, but rather is presented in a way Joe Sixpack can understand.
I'd like to see something like:
TSA Security Facts
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Restriction: No lithium batteries.
Applies to Flights: International
Rationale: We don't have a clue but we read something bad about them in Newsweek.
Since: 2007
Terrorist Plots Known to Use This Method: 0
Precedent (Score:5, Funny)
And for that matter, people bleed to death of papercuts all the time. Paper must be banned from airlines. Similarly, Cheeseburgers, umbrellas during lightning storms, and those shoes with little wheels in them must be stopped. On airplanes.
Other things that should never be brought on an airplane include: step ladders, Christmas lights, and Chuck Norris. Gambling is a very serious addiction, and as such fliers are hereby banned from setting foot inside of Las Vegas McCarron Airport.
Thank you for your attention, and thank you for flying with the TSA. The TSA: [tsa.gov] Drawing on our imagination to creatively protect America from imagined harm.
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:1, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.scottbieser.com/sept11.html [scottbieser.com]
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:3, Funny)
OK, we'll only allow "Ich luge" bullets.
Re:Safety issue not terrorism (Score:2, Funny)
- RG>
I'm totally down with this (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Control NOT Security (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Safety issue not terrorism (Score:5, Funny)
Umm... you want to put out a _lithium_ fire using _water_ ?
Re:Safety issue not terrorism (Score:3, Funny)
No, but you could maybe get a job in chemistry - just take a small piece of lithium, set fire to it and then throw it in a big bucket of water to put that fire out... should be "perfect", right ?
PS: if the penny hasn't dropped yet: "DON'T try this at home kids".
Re:Retarded (Score:2, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:4, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Actually that Is in the request... (Score:3, Funny)
bigcount=0;
bigsum=0;
foreach (battery in luggage.carryon){
if (battery.capacity>100Wh){
bigcount++;
bigsum+=battery.capacity;
}
}
if (bigcount>2 || bigsum>300Wh){
return false;
}
foreach (battery in luggage.checked){
if (battery.capacity>100Wh || !battery.inDevice){
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
Re:The TSA found the terrorist instruction manual (Score:3, Funny)
Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again (Score:2, Funny)