No, I don't feel at all safe. But then again, I never really did.
A bloke stabbed a Qantas stewardess on a domestic flight a few months back, with a piece of jagged wood, and there was a big flurry of media attention. What they didn't really focus on especially, and should've, is the fact that tighter and tighter security really doesn't seem to solve anything. People will come up with ways to get around it. A bloke tries to put bombs in his shoes; a bloke stabs someone with a piece of wood to avoid metal detectors; when's it going to stop? I'm starting to think we'd be better off with really bog-standard security, so that all the evil geniuses out there don't have a reason to demonstrate the depths of their evil genius inventiveness. I don't know. I'm full of crap. But that's just what I think.
On another note, I saw Donnie Darko last night, so I feel even less safe about planes now. ;)
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A bloke stabbed a Qantas stewardess on a domestic flight a few months back, with a piece of jagged wood, and there was a big flurry of media attention. What they didn't really focus on especially, and should've, is the fact that tighter and tighter security really doesn't seem to solve anything. People will come up with ways to get around it. A bloke tries to put bombs in his shoes; a bloke stabs someone with a piece of wood to avoid metal detectors; when's it going to stop? I'm starting to think we'd be better off with really bog-standard security, so that all the evil geniuses out there don't have a reason to demonstrate the depths of their evil genius inventiveness.
I don't know. I'm full of crap. But that's just what I think.
On another note, I saw Donnie Darko last night, so I feel even less safe about planes now. ;)