Need to fart on a plane? Cover it with matches?

[CVD]

So if you're working security at the airport and some old lady's purse came through with a book a matches in it...
1. Would you catch it?
2. Would you give a shit?

No, you'd be looking for guns, knives, explosives, pepper spray, metal objects etc.

Not like your going to burn down the plane. The can always depressurize the cabin.

And no, I'm thinking that with the current state of airport security they *probably* dont have anything that picks up trace amounts of phosphorus in something as small as a restaurant matchbook. If they dont see it with the x-ray machine they are SOL.

[Jakey]

Originally Posted by CVD

So if you're working security at the airport and some old lady's purse came through with a book a matches in it...
1. Would you catch it?
2. Would you give a shit?

1. Good question, I have not watched a the images of a bag going through a scanner. However, when I came through Denver last Saturday they were able to fully distinguish a mini-stapler in my backpack and the stapler was piled in with a bunch of other shit. Yes the stapler is metal, but, there were multiple other metal objects around it (pens, ruler, scissors, etc.).
2. Yes. Their job is to protect air travelers, not "selectively give a shit."

While I was waiting to go through security in Denver, I was looking at the little table, which always sits at the security entrance, with all the shit people leave behind and there were matches on it, hence when I made my broad statement about matches.