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by bediger 5232 days ago
In a larger sense, this is rubbish. It's a man-made rule that you can't take bottled drinks (or can't take X for any X) on a flight. Not allowing bottled drinks on flights is particularly stupid in light of exactly how the "two part explosive" is made, and in light of what the goobers in the terror plot using two part explosives wanted to blow up (the terminal).

This is like a headline saying that a dog has spent a frugalpopillion dollars to figure out how to bite a postman. It's a "so what". The real headlines ought to be about how the TSA and the USA feds are running roughshod over constitutional rights. Frikken lapdog news outlets...