Journalists carried knives on board of an airplane

[Ted]

Just saw the following item on TV



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British Airways is launching an investigation after two journalists claimed they carried weapons on to a plane at Heathrow Airport without being stopped.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1733000/1733918.stm



It doesn't state it in the article, but one of the knives was a Spyderco SpyderCard (plain) 'hidden' in a wallet.

The others were a knife hidden in a pen and in a haircomb.



Ted

[kraziekurtis]

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Hope this isn't gonna turn into some big whatchamadoo <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Spydercard <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle> How could they get that on there!!!!


If anything should be done the security guards they went through should be fired!!

It can be understood that they were only doing it for research purposes, I guess.

[yog]

It &quot;may&quot; have been for research purposes KrazieKurtis, but over here trouble sells stories, and junalists are very good at causing trouble.

In some cases no doubt some jurnalists have done good work, but it saddens me when I see so many poltitions making so many knee jerk laws because they are being pushed / led by media pressure.

A few years ago Balisongs were legal in this country. At that time they did not have a bad press, I cannot even recall a single story where they were named as a lethal weapon, I would have noticed because at that time one was my EDC and it did not raise much of an eyebrow even when I went for a fancy open.
Then there was a bad story about one. Somebody was killed by one, the twist, it was a teacher just outside of a school. Not to play down the seriousness of the crime, or downplay the heartache there must have been for the family involved, but it was little different from the thousands that happen in this country every year.
Except every now and then the national press runs with a paticular crime (seamingly at random) and they ran with this one. It lasted for weeks, the gist of it was &quot;why would a law abiding person even want to own such a knife ?&quot;. The polititions took notice of what was being printed in the newspapers and within six months there was a total ban on them.

I find it frightening to think how few loud voices it takes to make a new law, and how emotion always seems to outway reason.

"Walk softly, but carry a big stick."