<p>[TIA</a> Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book](<a href=“http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/20/man-airport-had-box-cutter-hidden-book/]TIA”>http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/20/man-airport-had-box-cutter-hidden-book/)</p>
<p>There’s no good reason to have a box cutter on an airplane.</p>
<p>Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. What was the name of the book containing the box cutter? “Fear Itself”.</p>
<p>well, if the cutter was used to cut the pages out…that kind of makes sense…stupid, but plausible, especially if it was done to hide drugs, and it was done , you know by someone who was wasted…</p>
<p>and it would take that kind of cutter to cut a book</p>
<p>"well, if the cutter was used to cut the pages out…that kind of makes sense…stupid, but plausible, especially if it was done to hide drugs, and it was done , you know by someone who was wasted…</p>
<p>and it would take that kind of cutter to cut a book"</p>
<p>IF you were going to hide drugs, you’d hide drugs. If you were going to hide a box cutter because you wanted it on the plane, then that’s what you would do – and he did.</p>
<p>Was the cutter razor sharp? I know this is a serious issue. I just couldn’t resist.
Sorry razorsharp. I hope you can see the humor that you were the 1st to respond.</p>
<p>so you hide the boxcutter in the book after to cut out the pages…druggies usually aren’t to swift…Its like me throwing scissors in my purse and forgetting about them…</p>
<p>there is not much here…its a non story…the guys an idiot, probablly nothing more</p>
<p>"so you hide the boxcutter in the book after to cut out the pages…druggies usually aren’t to swift…Its like me throwing scissors in my purse and forgetting about them…</p>
<p>there is not much here…its a non story…the guys an idiot, probablly nothing more"</p>
<p>It’s a very big story and it shows who our enemy actually is (hint: it’s not George W. Bush), which you can’t stand.</p>
<p>I find the reader comments to the story on the linked site more scary than the story itself.</p>
<p>Short of a gun or a bomb I’m not all that worried about a passenger having a “weapon” like a box cutter. </p>
<p>Before 9/11 everyone on the plane would back off and try to keep a person with a knife calm. Post 9/11 I’d think the person with the knife will get jumped by about 100 people … a couple people may get cut … but it seems pretty unlikely someone with a knife will get near hijacking and keeping control of a plane again.</p>
<p>(I flew soon after 9/11 and plastic silverware was banned at the time … like the guy in row 42 was going to use his plastic knife and be able to get to the front of the plane and into the cockpit … not happening now)</p>
<p>“Short of a gun or a bomb I’m not all that worried about a passenger having a “weapon” like a box cutter.”</p>
<p>It’s the fact of the attempt that scares me.</p>
<p>“attempt” - …uhhuh…its like my mom attempting to bring her tweezers on the plan…or my H and his pocket knife that was a prize at a golf tournement…bad bad people…</p>
<p>“attempt” - …uhhuh…its like my mom attempting to bring her tweezers on the plan…or my H and his pocket knife that was a prize at a golf tournement…bad bad people…"
Slowly this time. He was trying to take the box cutter on the plane. He could have injured or killed someone. what I meant by the attempt was that he chose to do such a thing. That someone would still be planning attacks on planes. As the mother of a child who flies cross-country in planes packed with fuel, I would have thought that you would have understood the danger, but obviously ideology trumps that. Oh and CGM, tweezers aren’t box cutters.</p>
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<p>Several of the 9/11 hijackers used boxcutters to take control and in fact killed at least one of the pilots with a boxcutter. I am worried about boxcutters and I am glad the TSA is also worried about them.</p>
<p>And CGM, lest you forget, box cutters were what the 9/11 highjackers used to SLIT THE THROATS of the pilots. Remember? Sheesh.</p>
<p>Thankfully, TSA caught him.</p>
<p>of COURSE I remember…for heavens sake…just seems in this case we are dealing with a drug taking idiot…I really doubt there is much to this…but hey, get all wound up and bothered…</p>
<p>and I own box cutters/exactoknives and have one in my car, several in my home</p>
<p>yes, guy was stupid, but a terrorist? probably not</p>
<p>glad they caught it too, but this guy most likely is not a national threat, though some here seem to want him to be</p>
<p>“It’s a very big story and it shows who our enemy actually is (hint: it’s not George W. Bush), which you can’t stand.”</p>
<p>yep, big story…who our enemy actually is…yep</p>
<p>i am not saying boxcutters arent’ dangerous, they are…however, to make this case some sort of 'oh- look…big giant threat…" well, doubtful</p>
<p>“of COURSE I remember…for heavens sake…just seems in this case we are dealing with a drug taking idiot…I really doubt there is much to this…but hey, get all wound up and bothered”</p>
<p>It seems that way to you because you’d rather take the word of a criminal than your own common sense.</p>
<p>“Officers found books in the backpack titled “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.”</p>
<p>Do you guys seriously think this was some random idiot? Do you guys recognize the titles of those books? and he had a knife.</p>
<p>It’s not hard to put two and two together</p>
<p>We have the ability to kill each other in the supermarket or on the bus. 9/11 happened because the cockpit doors weren’t secure; they are now. It doesn’t matter any more if there’s a boxcutter in the cabin; good thing, since small razor blades can’t be detected anyway. We do need to do our best to keep bombs off the planes; planes are still big headline targets, and more terrorists would like to bring us down than before Bush’s Iraq disaster.</p>