Confiscated airport items (liquids) given to homeless or sold on Ebay.

[deminks]

Americablog raises an interesting question:

How can they give the confiscated airport items to the homeless if they don't know if they're explosives or not?

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-can-they-give-confiscated-airport.html

I'm talking about the new things they're confiscating at the airport. They say the products are unopened, but they're giving them to the homeless in Phoenix. Okay, then how do you know they're not explosives that you're handing to the homeless, since you haven't opened them? Apparently, the airport people, in Phoenix at least, know quite well that the stuff they took off of the passengers in line were not explosives. So why did they take it in the first place?

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport planned to give 11 boxes of surrendered items to the city's human services department, which will give the unopened bottles of shampoo, toothpaste and other items to homeless shelters, airport spokeswoman Lexie Van Haren said.

Same thing in Pennsylvania - seems YOU can't take it on the plane because it might be a bomb, but THEY can sell it on eBay without knowing if it's a bomb, or they're sure it's not a bomb, so then why did they take it in the first place?:

It's duct tape all over again.

[rzemanfl]

1. It is okay if homeless shelters blow up. Solves the homeless

problem. :sarcasm:

[Donnachaidh]

2. here in Atlanta they are saying the things are being tossed

They *claim* they can't be given away, because most of them have been opened.

I find it interesting that the confiscated goods are being addressed so quickly, even if the stories are scams. I'll bet alot of people have been raising a ruckus about it.

[papau]

3. The Brits are going to crush and bury the $50 an ouch stuff :-)

:-)

[CoffeeCat]

4. Ok, where's the hidden camera?

Is this some joke? Is all of America on "Candid Camera"? When does Alan Fundt come out?

Maybe they're using the homeless as "testers." Bomb squads are too expensive, so they're outsourcing this work
to the homeless shelter.

I can just see FBI members, inside the homeless shelters, "Ok, you wash your hair with the strawberry shampoo. Then--this other guy here is going
to wash his hair with the vanilla shampoo. After I leave, I want both of you to rub heads together."

[Breeze54]

5. "So why did they take it in the first place?"

I can only surmise that they were afraid of someone on the plane
taking the stuff from a passenger and using it to set off a bomb.
Isn't that what they were thinking? :shrug:
Like nail polish remover, alcohol, etc?

I don't know but that seems to me to be their reasoning.

When I gave birth to my first child, they took my chap-stick away! :wtf:
LMAO! I couldn't believe it! Their reason?
It's petroleum based and "could" cause a fire or explode!
That's what the nun told me but I wasn't in any position to really argue. :rofl:
:crazy: ? I don't know. I'm not a scientist.

[Ian David]

6. Those things can be made into explosives while sitting on the plane

Apparently, the terrorists have been watching MacGuyver.

[seabeyond]

7. they knew they werent explosive just by simple action of sending

employee to gather stuff in a trash bag. no suspected explosive is handled in a trash bag by a minimum wage earning employee. that is the stupid in this whole thing that people follow along and do and feel oh so safe. intellectually it makes NO sense to me what so ever. and i see on this board people saying they are willing to do it to be safer. no sense at all

[JuniperLea]

8. Yep

I knew immediately this whole deal was bullshit for the very reason you site. And what about all the TV news peeps who handled and filmed the confiscated items.

Bullshit. It's all bullshit. They are playing games with our minds, folks. Don't for a second imagine this tactic to be anything else but a massive mind fuck.