Only the Bush Administration and their clown child Michael Chertkoff can keep America safe from the grumblings of traveler's forced to toss aside liquids and gels at the nation's airports. But while airport officials promised the sealed stuff was really getting thrown out instead of becoming bounty for airport employees, at least one airport is donating the items to the homeless:
Airports dumping toothpaste, lip gloss and wine
Passenger: 'I assume before too long we'll be naked'
Friday, August 11, 2006; Posted: 6:11 p.m. EDT (22:11 GMT)
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Loads of liquid goods discarded by airline passengers at security checkpoints will end up in the trash, not in the pockets of airport employees or others, officials at airports across the country promised Friday.
No exceptions -- not even for cases of Napa Valley wine.
"We had people throw away a whole case of wine, or try to drink their wine in line," said San Francisco's International Airport duty manager Lily Wang.
Airport security screeners scrambled to implement a new ban on all liquids and gels -- from lip gloss and toothpaste to perfume and tequila -- in carry-on luggage after British authorities announced Thursday the arrest of 24 people in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes. Baby formula, prescription medication and essential nonprescription medication are still allowed.
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"I know they have to do this, but I think they went overboard," said Terry Asbury, an Ohio resident who flew from Albuquerque to Cincinnati on Thursday and had to throw out her cosmetics. "I literally lost about $50 or $60 worth of things we were told to throw out."
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport planned to give 11 boxes of surrendered items to the city's human services department, which will give the unopened bottles of shampoo, toothpaste and other items to homeless shelters, airport spokeswoman Lexie Van Haren said
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In Pennsylvania, state officials were considering pulling some discarded items for a state program that resells on eBay any items of value relinquished at airport security checkpoints, said Edward Myslewicz, spokesman for the General Services Department. However, officials at the state's main airports in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh said they were discarding all the liquids and gels.
Those Republicans - always lookin' for ways to take potentially explosive products and pass them out to the poor!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/11/terror.passengers.ap/index.html

Airports dumping toothpaste, lip gloss and wine
Passenger: 'I assume before too long we'll be naked'

Friday, August 11, 2006; Posted: 6:11 p.m. EDT (22:11 GMT)
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Loads of liquid goods discarded by airline passengers at security checkpoints will end up in the trash, not in the pockets of airport employees or others, officials at airports across the country promised Friday.
No exceptions -- not even for cases of Napa Valley wine.
"We had people throw away a whole case of wine, or try to drink their wine in line," said San Francisco's International Airport duty manager Lily Wang.
Airport security screeners scrambled to implement a new ban on all liquids and gels -- from lip gloss and toothpaste to perfume and tequila -- in carry-on luggage after British authorities announced Thursday the arrest of 24 people in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes. Baby formula, prescription medication and essential nonprescription medication are still allowed.
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"I know they have to do this, but I think they went overboard," said Terry Asbury, an Ohio resident who flew from Albuquerque to Cincinnati on Thursday and had to throw out her cosmetics. "I literally lost about $50 or $60 worth of things we were told to throw out."
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport planned to give 11 boxes of surrendered items to the city's human services department, which will give the unopened bottles of shampoo, toothpaste and other items to homeless shelters, airport spokeswoman Lexie Van Haren said
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In Pennsylvania, state officials were considering pulling some discarded items for a state program that resells on eBay any items of value relinquished at airport security checkpoints, said Edward Myslewicz, spokesman for the General Services Department. However, officials at the state's main airports in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh said they were discarding all the liquids and gels.
Those Republicans - always lookin' for ways to take potentially explosive products and pass them out to the poor!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/11/terror.passengers.ap/index.html