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[–] 131 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Next time you pass, throw a packet of yeast in there.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could even mix the yeast into a bottle of sugar syrup beforehand to give the juice a boost of yeast food. And less suspicious when dumping it.

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Never fails to amuse me that in order to fight to “threat” of binary explosives i.e. two liquids that explode when mixed together…

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    by definition this occurs before security, so anybody that wanted to could just bring a regular explosive

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Aren't the dogs trained to sniff out regular explosives?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Generally speaking, police dogs are trained to alert on command and are not used for actual investigation.

    Yes, SAR dogs exist and properly trained dogs exist as well. However, the overwhelming evidence shows dogs are not a reliable tool when used by police.

    Welcome to the downfall of an empire.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Most of the airports in the US have some sort or chemical detector too. I always get my hands swapped going through PDX because I brought so scary looking circuit boards with my carryon 5 years ago.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What do they swap them with?

    Are they shipped separately?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s been a few years, but they are white round pads, probably 3 inches wide. I’m not sure what’s on the pad, probably a solvent of some kind.

    The pads go in a machine about the size of an larger microwave oven which I believe uses NMR to scan for nitrates and other kinds of explosive residue.

    It was a pair of highschool level sumo robots, lots of wires and motors and gears.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Liquids may be dangerous, so let's mix them all together!

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh darn guess I'll have to pour my separate bottles of bleach and ammonia in there since they're not allowed past security checkpoint.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Instructions unclear, unzips...

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Boston Airport won't even sell you a beer before 11. Damn puritan masshole laws

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    Okay. unzip

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    But, if they're explosive, wouldn't emptying your explosive with a soup of everyone else's explosives, be a bad idea? Unless.... is all this "security theater" just for show??

    E: grammar

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The point isn't that liquids are explosive, the point is that water messes up the explosives detection. It's "liquids are not allowed, because water is a false positive for explosives and we want to avoid the false positive".

    That's why it's starting to get allowed in many airports - they updated their detectors to newer technology where water is no longer a false positive.

    Nobody thinks your bottle of water is a bomb.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I bet that smells just like my Mom's pussy.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you heard of bartender's mat?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    All liquids you say?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    When the terrorists empty their liquid explosives into there, you’ll get to smell like piss while the flesh burns off of your bones.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I guess they finally got tired of cleaning up the mess people left behind when they had to throw away their drinks.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Ultimate King Cup

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I’m imagining them having to change out the bag or.. I guess bag-less bin…?

    Unless this goes into a drain which is… equally super weird, actually, because it isn’t sink-shaped or anything.. so now I’m imagining this super tall trash can with like a weak little drain at the bottom full of straws and bottle caps and stuff.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I am actually a janitor at an airport and these have little hoses on the back that we just put into the drain in the janitor closet. They smell like rotten eggs and midew at the same time and are the single most disgusting thing I have ever had to clean.

    Most of them have either a grate on top to prevent trash getting in or a separate chamber on the inside that filters out solids.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are swamp water and jungle juice the same thing?

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