Random Security Measures

€uroMeinke · 10-30-2006, 09:42 PM

Recently, when I flew out to San Antonio, I heard a new safety/security measure. While preparing for take off, the usual spiel of seat up right, tray tables in the upright locked position, came this additional instruction: "All window blinds up?" That was odd, I thought - How could that be relavent? But as I landed in Phoenix, the same instructions were repeated for landing, and again for take-off on my second leg, and once again for that landing. Ok, I thought, there's a new safety instruction.

Flying back though, again two flights - nada. No reference to shades being up. So now I wonder, was something up on Saturday requiring this new unusual measure (thoughts of spy cams scanning the faces of passengers as they take off and land)? Or was this a bogus measure meant to play a joke on the passengers that day?

Will I get in trouble with the TSA for posting this?

10-30-2006, 09:42 PM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Random Security Measures Recently, when I flew out to San Antonio, I heard a new safety/security measure. While preparing for take off, the usual spiel of seat up right, tray tables in the upright locked position, came this additional instruction: "All window blinds up?" That was odd, I thought - How could that be relavent? But as I landed in Phoenix, the same instructions were repeated for landing, and again for take-off on my second leg, and once again for that landing. Ok, I thought, there's a new safety instruction. Flying back though, again two flights - nada. No reference to shades being up. So now I wonder, was something up on Saturday requiring this new unusual measure (thoughts of spy cams scanning the faces of passengers as they take off and land)? Or was this a bogus measure meant to play a joke on the passengers that day? Will I get in trouble with the TSA for posting this? __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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