I know I feel safer
Pilgrims on the Vatican's new chartered airline have been told to leave holy water behind for security reasons.
Officials at Tarbes-Lourdes airport in southern France said that bottles of water from the shrine at Lourdes could present a potential terrorist threat.
Another example of just how ridiculous some of these security measures actually are. Creating an explosive by mixing various liquid components together is nearly impossible to begin with. Despite that, I can understand banning liquids that can't be easily identified, but banning water just takes things past the point of stupidity.
It does allow me the chance to share an amusing anecdote, however. A friend of mine decided to try and get around said liquid ban by taking his larger bottle of water and tossing it in the freezer for the night, presenting it at the security gate as a solid block of ice. Despite arguing his case that the ban is on liquids and that the bottle didn’t contain any, or at least very little, liquid at that point, they still confiscated the bottle.
A foreseeable outcome, of course, but I can’t help but admire the effort.
