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Profiles In Sidestepping the Air Travel Liquid Restrictions

Ill-advised?  Perhaps.  Humorous?  Mostly.
(HT: Fark)

Security staff at Manchester Airport say they are still having to confiscate thousands of litres of liquids every week despite repeated reminders ... And the rules are driving some passengers to extreme lengths to try to get their over-sized liquids through security in their hand luggage.

One passenger was so incensed at having his deodorant confiscated that he proceeded to publicly empty his bladder of liquid in a plastic bag in protest at the legislation.

A man with four bottles of frozen water who claimed they were solids and exempt from the rules.

A man who was told he couldn't take through a bottle of vodka so drank the entire bottle in front of security staff. He was later removed from the flight for being drunk.

A woman who insisted that her two bottles of wine were not liquid but "fine wines".

And one man who was having a can of shaving foam confiscated and protested by squirting it all over the x-ray and barringer machines. The clean-up operation took almost half an hour.

          

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Profiles In Sidestepping the Air Travel Liquid Restrictions

Ill-advised?  Perhaps.  Humorous?  Mostly.
(HT: Fark)

Security staff at Manchester Airport say they are still having to confiscate thousands of litres of liquids every week despite repeated reminders ... And the rules are driving some passengers to extreme lengths to try to get their over-sized liquids through security in their hand luggage.

One passenger was so incensed at having his deodorant confiscated that he proceeded to publicly empty his bladder of liquid in a plastic bag in protest at the legislation.

A man with four bottles of frozen water who claimed they were solids and exempt from the rules.

A man who was told he couldn't take through a bottle of vodka so drank the entire bottle in front of security staff. He was later removed from the flight for being drunk.

A woman who insisted that her two bottles of wine were not liquid but "fine wines".

And one man who was having a can of shaving foam confiscated and protested by squirting it all over the x-ray and barringer machines. The clean-up operation took almost half an hour.

          

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