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Post 9/11 transportation security measures really put a damper on everyone’s favorite pastime of making collages on airplanes.  At long last, the wait to be able to cut out images for your collage or possibly ransom note, is over. 

The changes include a new type of random search, a revision of the
pat-down process and the end of a ban on small scissors and certain
other sharp tools in carry-on luggage.

The goal of the changes,
which will be announced Friday and go into effect on Dec. 20, is to try
to disrupt the now-familiar routine associated with security screening,
a routine that federal officials fear would-be terrorists may have
studied to figure out ways to circumvent it.

So in order to disrupt the terrorists, they’re doing away with the "routine" of not allowing scissors and certain other sharp objects onto planes?  Did somebody put Michael Brown in charge of the TSA?  So the plan is to throw them off by making it so easy to get sharp objects on the plane?  They’ll obviously think it was a trap and abort the entire mission.  Genius!

Small Scissors in Your Carry-On? Welcome Aboard [NYT]

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