Cue sticks on planes aint gonna happen yet
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My Balabushka will not be seen outside Colorado until the rule is changed.
That's unfortunate. I have a solution for them! Issue hand guns to everyone who boards a plane. Planes being hijacked will become a thing of the past!
Ken
So true. It is a shame they stuck cues and knives on same issue. I can understand not wanting knives on board, but cues? C'mon.
I smell a movie script. There are F'n CUES on the F'n PLANE! Hollywood can sell us anything!
I don't know, some pool stuff seems to get very violent http://omgwtf.spreadshirt.com/-I10917279
I can gouge out an eye with my laptop powercord connection, that's OK though.
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I just arrived in Vegas last night and I saw 5 people carrying their cue sticks off planes.. I was suprised because it wasn't supposed to be till the 25th, they said no issues at all.. I checked mine in my suite case but I would have brought my regular player off I would have known I wasn't going to get turned away at security.. My luck I would have especially with my suitcase all ready would have been checked my then.. Oh well..
Chris
Chris
Yeah could you imagine some terrorist using an original Bushka for a weapon.
But I totally agree about the small knives or anything like it. There is no need to have anything like that on a plane whatsoever. Unless going to a knife show or something, which in this case they need to be stored away in the below holding.
What BS if that's the reason the airlines are against it. Carry-on was already a problem since people don't want to check their luggage if they don't have to. Charging for checked bags only made it worse. They should be charging for carry-on if they have to charge, not checked bags.
There have been some reports of people carrying on pool cues but I wouldn't chance it unless there was a definitive rule from TSA and the airline informed me it was OK with them. The problem with taking a chance is that if they don't let you through security or past the gate onto the plane you then have to check your cue case without benefit of having it both hidden and better protected in one of your other bags.
Who's in charge
So the stewardess' conglomerate has spoken ? Good call. Jeremy Piven called this one even better !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZVQVyG_T4
TSA just delayed the decision to allow cues, small knives etc. in the cabins. The flight attendant union shot it down. Their going to further debate the issue.-
So the stewardess' conglomerate has spoken ? Good call. Jeremy Piven called this one even better !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZVQVyG_T4
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Do you know where these people were arriving from? I know BWI has a bunch of nitwits running the screeners and no way a cue would be allowed through.
Like my friend who went to tournament in Europe. He had to check his case separately since it was too long to fit in the suitcase he was taking. That particular airline had detailed luggage scanning/tracking. The case never got onto the plane. Some worker at SFO got themselves a new cue.
I routinely take my normal case which just fits inside my long roller-duffel that I got just for this purpose, but I'd much rather keep my cue with me. The airline isn't going to pay me the replacement cost.
On a related issue, on a previous pool trip (to the IPT tournament in Reno) I discovered 1) that you should never put a laptop into your checked luggage as is shows up on x-ray and is too inviting, and 2) the airlines will not pay for lost laptops.
http://usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2013/04/22/tsa-knives-planes-security/2105001/
Yeah, I can see the reasoning behind the knives thing, too. But does this really have to be an "all or nothing" decision with the TSA relaxation? I personally think an amendment can be made to allow the other items in the relaxation proposal, and just take the knives out.
But then again, that's the problem with our world society in general. Humankind have forgotten the meaning of the word MODERATION -- of finding that middle ground to solve a problem. No, it's "all or nothing" these days; of clinging to the signposts at the extreme ends of a debate or discussion.
::sigh::
-Sean
I can see the reasoning, but the reasoning is wrong. Describe a problem scenario on a passenger plane that doesn't involve the knife wielder being beaten to a pulp. We have known how to deal with problems like that for 11.5 years.
There are now much softer targets than airplanes. Maybe you can think of a few. Should we also have everyone who enters a movie theater strip searched?
Bob:
You obviously have been following my Facebook wall about this very situation.
I agree -- there are MUCH softer targets than airplanes these days. The media circus around the Boston events proved that out to a "T" (not to be confused with the "T" line in Boston, but in a strange word-pun kind of way, that's another example of a soft target).
Alas, another example of "don't look over there... look here! Look here!"
-Sean
Pooey.....I had so hoped it was true and we could again carry our cues on with us......I really don't like to check it in my luggage.
The last time I went to Vegas to play I bought a special holder for my cue that would fit it in my suitcase and carried my empty (except for chalk I thought) cue case. I had forgotten that some months before I had went to pool straight from doing some work that involved a box cutter and had a box cutter in my pocket. When I noticed this, at pool, I put the box cutter in a pouch in my pool case and forgot about it. Fortunately security found the box cutter.
The last time I went to Vegas to play I bought a special holder for my cue that would fit it in my suitcase and carried my empty (except for chalk I thought) cue case. I had forgotten that some months before I had went to pool straight from doing some work that involved a box cutter and had a box cutter in my pocket. When I noticed this, at pool, I put the box cutter in a pouch in my pool case and forgot about it. Fortunately security found the box cutter.