"explosives" in my luggage

In message Hatunen
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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:37:59 +0100, William Black
wrote:

Hatunen wrote:



toy gun caps is not in the "things that explode" category either
except by some weird stretch of the definition of "explode".


Place a roll of them on a concrete floor and hit them with a large hammer
and get back to us...

How would you define "explode", particularly in the context of
representing a danger to an airliner.

Anything that causes a large enough concussive force to damage the plane
(not the case) or creates sufficient heat to ignite the combustible
material known as luggage that airlines insist on loading onto each and
ever passenger airliner.

DevilsPGD wrote:
A roll of caps is more then sufficient to start a small fire.

But then, so are any number of things that are perfectly OK to
take about an airliner.

True, but few (if any) are allowed in checked luggage. You certainly
can't check matches, for example, although you are allowed to carry
them with you.

Oh, I can think of quite a few things that (a) I could use
to start a fire and (b) are perfectly OK in checked luggage.

As a former boy scout, I can tell you that this was considered
"cheating" but it was nonetheless effective under the right
conditions.

If you had to use a roll of caps to get your fire started, you
were doing it the hard way.

My group managed to remember matches, which fell under preparedness.

Matches, caps...didn't the Scouts ever teach you any
really useful ways of making fire?

Bob M.

In message "Bob Myers"
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Matches, caps...didn't the Scouts ever teach you any
really useful ways of making fire?

Yup, did that too, but once we proved we could get the job done the hard
way, and then figured out that we could justify laziness under
preparedness, there was little incentive.

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DevilsPGD wrote:

In message "Bob Myers"
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Matches, caps...didn't the Scouts ever teach you any
really useful ways of making fire?

Yup, did that too, but once we proved we could get the job done the hard
way, and then figured out that we could justify laziness under
preparedness, there was little incentive.

And the caps were much more fun...

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