Audioholics On (permanent?) Location: LAX

[Tom Andry]

<P><STRONG><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/LAX.php"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><IMG style="WIDTH: 67px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=[Bottle1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/Bottle1_th.gif" align=left border=0></FONT></A><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>8/10/06 – Los Angeles:</FONT></STRONG><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> Gene DellaSala and Clint DeBoer, President and Editor in Chief respectively, of the wildly popular Audioholics.com have been stranded in Los Angeles after the recent lockdown in airport security. Luckily we have a first hand report of their experiences. </FONT>
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[billy p]

Roflmao

at least you can delete this thread before they read it!!

 

[majorloser]

Excuse me sir, could you step out of line...

Next time I'll give airport security a "heads up" before Gene and Clint get there.

Can you say, "Full cavity search"?

 

[Sheep]

LOL!

Well, hopefully they don't get shot in LA...

SheepStar

 

[masak_aer]

I wish at least a member with a digital camera was together with 'em in the airport....that's gonna be a quick win to the contest i put up a moment ago. ..

 

[Wayde Robson]

I wonder what the cutting edge technology was ? Some new security device perhaps?

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

I wonder who can hold out longer without a shower, Gene or Clint? Don't forget, they've confiscated the cologne.

 

[Tomorrow]

"...but sir, this is my Tour de France drug test sample..."

 

[Audioholics]

Uh, a thunderstorm? You've got to be kidding...

So... after clearing security without a hitch (we got through faster than ever before - I'm talking record time) we end up in Charlotte, NC... delayed until 1:05am because we all had to circle around and wait out a lightning storm.

It seems that mother nature has more power than any terrorist plot hatched by mere men. Bottom line is lots of planes had to be diverted (we just happened to have a lot of gas so we waited it out) and we're all waiting for the new arrival schedules to shake out.

Now we wait... and hear the quarterly "Attention passengers: Effective immediately all liquids and gels must be consumed or discarded before entering the aircraft" announcement over the PA... Gene is downing his hair gel as we speak...

Hey, at least Charlotte has free wi-fi access! Enjoy the pic.

 

[Matt34]

LOL

I feel your pain, being stuck at an airport rates right up there with driving nails through your foot.


Edit: Tom, you diffentally brought the "funny" with that article. ROFLMAO

 

[Sheep]

So... after clearing security without a hitch (we got through faster than ever before - I'm talking record time) we end up in Charlotte, NC... delayed until 1:05am because we all had to circle around and wait out a lightning storm.

It seems that mother nature has more power than any terrorist plot hatched by mere men. Bottom line is lots of planes had to be diverted (we just happened to have a lot of gas so we waited it out) and we're all waiting for the new arrival schedules to shake out.

Now we wait... and hear the quarterly "Attention passengers: Effective immediately all liquids and gels must be consumed or discarded before entering the aircraft" announcement over the PA... Gene is downing his hair gel as we speak...

Hey, at least Charlotte has free wi-fi access! Enjoy the pic.

Wa, aaaawww, your going down, eye poppy, down. Karianteh. Clintester down.

SheepStar

 

[kleinwl]

Security is a joke

ahh... this is so typical of TSA. Airline security is a joke. All this worry about shoe bombs... then liquid explosives... etc, etc. All they are doing is looking busy. Even with the national guard deployed to LAX to help beef up security... I still expect that I could waltz thru the side gates and be on the tarmac before you can even say "this is b******t".

The TSA has failed soo many securty tests it's not even funny anymore. All this running around is to prove that "America hasn't been attacked for 5 years... and that not an accident". Nope... it's pure fricking luck.

 

[markw]

What type of gel would one consume?

 

[Resident Loser]

There are some...

What type of gel would one consume?

...trail-friendly energy products (think Powerbars, Cliff Bars) that come in gel form in squeeze paks...they're supposed to break down quicker, need no water chaser, and metabolize better than bars and the like...

jimHJJ(...come to think of it, Powerbars have the consistency of plastique...)

 

[Sheep]

ahh... this is so typical of TSA. Airline security is a joke. All this worry about shoe bombs... then liquid explosives... etc, etc. All they are doing is looking busy. Even with the national guard deployed to LAX to help beef up security... I still expect that I could waltz thru the side gates and be on the tarmac before you can even say "this is b******t".

The TSA has failed soo many securty tests it's not even funny anymore. All this running around is to prove that "America hasn't been attacked for 5 years... and that not an accident". Nope... it's pure fricking luck.

Great post!

SheepStar

 

[Audioholics]

Yeah, I think it's generally accepted that the TSA security is meant to be a second line of defense, with the Intelligence community being the first. After all, the TSA didn't make this recent bust.

 

[Tom Andry]

Yeah, I think it's generally accepted that the TSA security is meant to be a second line of defense...

Yeah, they're the line standing there looking at each other and whispering, "Where are we supposed to stand again?"

 

[mustang_steve]

...trail-friendly energy products (think Powerbars, Cliff Bars) that come in gel form in squeeze paks...they're supposed to break down quicker, need no water chaser, and metabolize better than bars and the like...

jimHJJ(...come to think of it, Powerbars have the consistency of plastique...)

That's what I was thinking....I could imagine the panic if I checkd in my bags for a cycling trip and there was my travel alarm clock next to a store box of powerbars in the suitcase....

 

[Audioholics]

Pretty soon the terrorists will have what they want. No one will be able to conveniently travel. Then, I suppose, there might be some new kind of car bomb "trend" that will have the US setting up interstate roadblocks where vehicles are checked for explosives.

Next, the suicide bombings will start and so we'll need metal detectors and explosive sniffers on all public buildings, followed by retail buildings...

Unless they're idiots, this has to factor into their ultimate plan to upset the West.

 

[captain_tinker]

Folks,
On a recent trip back home from visiting my folks in Boston, my wife decided to put the baby formula in a large ziplock bag, then put it back into the baby formula can, then packed it in MY suitcase. Of course we were running late after only being able to go 45 mph in an early morning rainstorm, (think 3 am) and 4 to 5 inch deep puddles on the freeway.

The TSA people saw something odd in my bag through the xrays, so they pulled it aside and proceeded to search it. So, I had the rest of the family head to the gate as they were searching my bags, hoping I would be able to join them in a few moments. Suddenly the TSA dude, pulled out the can of formula, popped it open, and pulled out this large bag of white powder, looked over at me with a sly grin, and said, "ahaaah...".

"Oh boy" I thought to myself, just what do they think that is? I tried to tell them it was baby formula, but they wouldn't believe me. They actually had to bring someone over to test it before they would believe me that it wasn't cocaine or anthrax or some idiot thing like that.

My wife felt bad after that, especially since I had already told her to just dump it before we even left. The baby didn't like that kind of formula anyway, and was just spitting it up. But she had spent $X amount of money on it, and didn't want to waste it.. Owell. By the time I got to my plane, it was final boarding call and they were about to close the doors.

To top it all off, my son decided to spit up that same formula all over me soon after takeoff, so I smelled like baby barf from Boston to California.

-capT