Bag's Rants

I've a jar of handcream. Take me to Cuba.

Reading this article about the woman who has been arrested for carrying handcream and some matches. So much for the extra security which has worked out to be a real farce.

Seems she was restrained and the plane had to divert. I'm not surprised that people are starting to lose it. The human animal can only put up with so much before it explodes (Bad choice of words there)

Now why did the plane have to divert? It seems that the intention is to get the plane on the ground as soon as possible. Could this be a new tactic for our terrorists to use. Go on a plane with no weapons rant and rave at the crew and get arrested. Plane gets diverted everybody gets fed up. Two jet fighter are used as an escort as well. Additional costs for the carrier and security services that they will not get back from the nutter.

People are not rational at the best of times and these processes just make it worse for everyone. What sort of strategy is this? Why can't they just continue to where they are going and get the nutter dealt with there?

We don't seem to be able to do anything right. I'm coming to the conclusion that these processes were devised by a bunch of students in the 70s and have not been updated since then because screwing us around seems to be a standard ploy.

I'm sure we will get more of these as frustrations rise. Jeez, it's bad enough with just the normal bureaucratic cock ups.

posted by Bag @ 11:08 am