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Your Airport To-Not-Do List

Posted Jul 18, 08 5:25 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Air travel not stressful enough for you? US News and World Report presents four ways to land yourself in a planeload of trouble.

  1. Use words like “bomb” and “hijack”: A man in Boston jokingly told an airport clerk he was “here to blow things up,” and discovered state troopers and a K-9 unit just didn’t get his sense of humor.

  1. Travel with illegal items: Anything from gel inserts to foreign guavas can result in some serious headaches. Oddly, you are allowed to bring items like scissors and lighters on board.
  2. Wear ill-advised clothing: An student with LEDs on her shirt wound up facing down a gun over her suspicious-looking garment.
  3. Look worried: Thanks to “behavior detection officers” now commonplace at airports, even the wrong facial expression can make you a target.

Source US News and World Report

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Travelers enrolled in the Clear program for about $100 per year can go to the head of the line at security to get to their flights at Little Rock and some other U.S. airports.   (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Passengers stand in the security line at Sky Harbor International Airport Monday, June 23, 2008, in Phoenix.   (AP Photo/Matt York)
Luther Duke, center left, a Transportation Security Administration screener, collects lost items near a passenger security check point at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J.   (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
A relatively light line for the day before Thanksgiving forms at security in the Southwest Airlines terminal at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Linthicum, Md. in 2007.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Travelers line up to pass security as they prepare to board flights Thursday, July 3, 2008, at Miami International Airport in Miami.   (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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