Security Theatre

[retrogradeorbit]

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security

"I littered my carry-on with many of my prohibited items, and also an Osama bin Laden, Hero of Islam T-shirt, which often gets a rise out of people who see it..."

Comments

[scienceshoew]

I read this a while ago and tried to take a plastic bottle of tap water on the plane by writing "SALINE SOLUTION" on it. The security guard said it was too big though.