Amtrak Antics

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:37:05 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Becky Akers at LewRockwell.com - Ms. Akers recently took a train trip. The Taking Scissors Away folks haven't yet started on train travelers. Somehow, no terrorists were able to comandeer the train. Hehe. [lew]

Though they certainly have a sense of humor: Amtrak's "Silver Meteor" finally chugged into the station 6 hours late, and we clambered aboard. "Dining car's that way," the conductor announced, and off I went, still on the lookout for suspicious behavior.

I found plenty of it. There were real butter knives on the tables! With metal blades! Good gracious, a terrorist could butter his dinner roll with one of those! I don't think I'm being alarmist here: given that the TSA's banned metal implements from flights and even airports, shouldn't Amtrak force terrorists to spread their butter with their thumbs, too?

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