[Travelandtourism] TSA tells air travelers: No wrapped gifts

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Donahue<mailto:pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com> 
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  Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:03 PM
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  Hello Cheryl and everyone,

  Ba. humbug!!

  Peter Donahue


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com<mailto:cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>>
  To: "travelandtourism" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>>
  Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 3:48 PM
  Subject: [Travelandtourism] TSA tells air travelers: No wrapped gifts


  WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration has a tip for Santas 
  traveling by air this holiday season: wrap those gifts after you fly, not 
  before.

  If you pack wrapped presents, the TSA's little helpers - airport screeners - 
  will tear them open, surely putting the kibosh on fliers' holiday cheer.

  The Grinchy message may not help the agency's lackluster public image, but 
  the policy is a security no-brainer - wrapped presents would be a gift to 
  terrorists hoping to slip threats onto airplanes.

  The wrapping paper isn't only a tool of terrorists.

  Last week screeners opened one traveler's gift-wrapped packages at Los 
  Angeles International Airptort and found 35 pounds of marijuana, according 
  to Los Angeles' Daily Breeze.

  Derik Dwayne Neely, 32, of Flint, Mich., was arrested on suspicion of 
  transporting marijuana for sale, according to the paper.

  On its "3-1-1 for Holiday Travel" the agency even offers advice on how to 
  dress to avoid setting off checkpoint metal detectors, and curtly warns 
  travelers against humbug like irreverent humor.

  "Be considerate and save jokes for after the checkpoint," the agency writes.

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