I stocked up on glass containers from ikea. I was able to get various depths of square and round containers that use the same size lids. ( the lids are plastic though)
I bought some of the square one a few weeks. They do bamboo lids for dry storage stuff but they also do silicon lids which are amazing. They're only a flat sheet of silicon that you lay on top of the container but they grip so hard that you can pick up a full container by the lid and it just holds on by friction. It's like witchcraft.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've bought cheapo plastic containers as I'm too tight to pay for upmarket stuff. Unfortunately I have also discovered that the lids are almost impossible to get back on after the initial removal. False economy I think.
It's probably standard procedure rather than "targetting" to check wheelchair users manually because they can't go through the scanner. If wheelchair users didn't get checked (not scanned and only a randomly-selected small proportion manually checked) the criminal fraternity would exploit that weakness for smuggling etc. You can't tell who's a criminal and who isn't just by looking, unfortunately.
No its not standard procedure. If your a person of colour and continually stopped its targeting. Every able bodied person that goes through a scanner is not searched. Multiple people are searched whether they trigger the beep or not. That's random selection. If your in a wheelchair and always stopped its targeting.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Somebody told me that they once saw a bloke get out of a car and don the full Burkha kit. Maybe he was transgender and maybe he wasn't. If I worked for security, I would always check nuns and religious looking blokes in frocks. Didn't ladies in the past hide dogs and who knows what under their voluminous skirts?
@B3 According to Boris he was on his way to rob a bank!
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Anyone who can't go through the scanner, for whatever reason, should be searched manually. No-one wants another terrorist attack. The random searches of people who have been scanned (and possibly targeted searches based on intelligence) are on top of that. I used to get picked out relatively often when I flew a lot for work.
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Of course people not going through the scanner for whatever reason are 'targetted' ie. checked by other methods. If not, it would be an open gateway for anybody attempting to smuggle anything. Imagine the uproar, and justifiable uproar, if there was an incident either airside or on a plane and the excuse given by the authorities was that they don't check wheelchair users or anybody else who is unable to pass through the scanners.
I would be far more concerned if that wasn't happening than annoyed at the short delay whilst it happens. When I was travelling for work I would have my bags checked almost every time because there were metal objects in my hand luggage. I didn't object.
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No its not standard procedure. If your a person of colour and continually stopped its targeting. Every able bodied person that goes through a scanner is not searched. Multiple people are searched whether they trigger the beep or not. That's random selection.
If your in a wheelchair and always stopped its targeting.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
@B3 According to Boris he was on his way to rob a bank!
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'