Keeping our skies safe, one paper cup at a time

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Keeping our skies safe, one paper cup at a time

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I could easily go off on a rant about the overweight, cross-eyed, mouth-breathing, leaning-back-on-his-chair, gut-hangin-out, smug catsa employee in the nation's capital, but I won't.
Instead, I'll post on here looking for an answer to the question; how the f@ck does that make any sense?
While scanning our fingerprints at the back hall check point, the aforementioned security guard informed us that we couldn't take our Tim's through. My fellow coffee drinker informed him that he had several water bottles in his bag, but the focus remained on the exposed coffee cup.
If air safety was the real concern, should a search not have been conducted and the offending liquids confiscated?
Is there some grave risk whereby a paper cup exposed to fluorescent lighting creates a threat of explosion? Clearly if the coffee had been concealed in a pocket or a flight bag we would have been deemed safe to proceed.
Thanks for keeping us safe from ourselves.


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It's simple actually.

The CATSA guy knew "Tims" isn't actually coffee.... :wink:

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But these security measures are WORKING! Since they started the crackdown on beverages, not one pilot has been able to bring down his own aircraft with his cup of coffee. You just can't argue with that kind of success.
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its all about optics i tell you, optics.

if your tim's cup was able to be concealed from both the CATSA employee and the traveling public i would bet that you would be permitted to proceed through the bypass with your tims. we used to safely place our cups of coffee in our flight bags while proceeding through the bypass in YYZ.

i assume this is just so the CATSA staff don't have to answer the traveling public when they point to the pilot in uniform that just went through security with a visible liquid. perhaps they are unable to explain that the pilot flies the friggin aircraft and should be permitted to bring whatever the frig he wants.
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the aforementioned security guard informed us that we couldn't take our Tim's through.
Seriously though, this is the one straw that might provoke a reaction from the Canadian people. Canadians will put up with a lot of bullshit, but denying them the coffee? We might have blood in the streets.
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If you are using the bypass, get a paper bag from Tim's, if they can't see it is a coffee they don't give you grief.
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Was it the guy in YLW?
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He just wanted you to throw it away half full so he could finish it later on his break.
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did the paper cup have holes in it...?
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Hey Maynard, no hole in the cup. Woulda been a good time for a clumsy mishap involving hot coffee and a fupa...

So next time I guess I'll use the kevlar Tim Horton's bag to contain my dangerous coffee.
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I could certainly understand this IF it were rrrrrollupthe rim time of the year...
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I would like to find the moronic people that decided on all of these post 9/11 bullshit rules and piss in their coffee.

IT WAS FRIGGIN' 9 YEARS AGO!

Jeebus, we were trading with the Germans a couple of years after WWII! You'd think after 9 years we'd get our shit together with these imaginary "terrorists".

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Actually, it was 4 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_trans ... y_reaction
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada. The plot was discovered and foiled by UK police before it could be carried out, and as a result unprecedented security measures were immediately put in place.
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Yeah, but they LOOKED like terrorists, not greasy haired, big watch wearing, Gayviator clad airline pilots with red passes. :roll:

And the cops know about all of this crap before it happens anyways- especially in England because Big Brother watches them walk into the mosques and tracks their every move.

LET THE BOYS HAVE THEIR TIMMIES! THEY'RE DRIVING THE PLANES FOR F*CK SAKES!
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Hey I'm not arguing with ya there.

I've had enough of having my toothpaste, shaving cream, and whatever else taken off of me. They have given provisions for us now, but at the time it was absolute madness.

On a side note, a colleague tried to get through security with a frozen water bottle. He argued that it wasn't a liquid, it was a solid! Hahah, they weren't having it though. :roll:
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Tim hortons IS NOT COFFEE people. CATSA's was doing you a favour.
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next time,

get empty small tims cups,

when you wake up in the morning do not take the normal morning piss, save it

when you get to the terminal fill the cup with nice hot piss, put a new lid on it

then walk through security and let them take it from you
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LOL vmc_demo. An XL cup with a loose lid, plus a little slip and spill accident.
You could explain by telling the hall cop that it was study material for a urine test.
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I LOVE IT!! :prayer:
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I love these responses. I think most pilots could easily have a second job as a stand up comic.
We have sarcasm down to a fine art. (I am being serious now BTW).
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