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Just in time for the holidays, O’Hare Airport announced a plan that will no longer require travelers to think ahead.
Anyone who carries banned liquids or gels to the airport now has the option of mailing the items to an address or leaving them at the O’Hare Hilton. It costs ten bucks to leave your hair gel at the Hilton and $14 to send it home or to your destination via the U.S. Mail.
What an incredibly helpful service! Or it would have been months ago when the changes were still catching most travelers unaware, as opposed to now after the biggest holiday travel season of the year when even Chicagoist’s grandmother knows she needs to store her Aqua Net in her checked bags. At this point, anyone leaving liquids or gels in their carry-on bags probably isn’t ignorant, so much as they are obstinate. These are the same people who have a carry-on the size of Cee-Lo Green, and get pissed when they're asked to gate-check it.
Also, if the whole reason for not allowing people to take liquids onboard planes is because they might be used for some nefarious purpose, does it make sense to allow those same people to send them through the mail or leave them at a hotel full of hundreds of people?
The Transportation Security Administration offers other tips to make holiday travel easier like keeping your gifts unwrapped, arriving early and not saying “You know what would be awesome? Blowing up this airplane.” Also, please try to cover yourself before you get on the plane so this 112 year-old man doesn't have a heart attack.
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I hate these stupid restrictions. Any sensible evil-doer would just put their toothpaste or whatever into their pocket and waltz thru security onto a plane and then *boom*.
All these stupid restrictions do is inconvenience travelers and otherwise demean us on our way to our next flight.
Check out Prof. Ian Lustick's belief that 'terrorism' is so easy to accomplish that there cannot be many terrorists out there or there would be many more terrorist attacks.
Hopefully the American public gets their collective heads out of their asses and starts to oppose these restrictions.
Hey, Cee-Lo is very sensitive about his size, and he's been trying to lose weight. You could at least be supportive.
I completely agree with you, Kfunk, about the restrictions, but I don't think the powers that be are fooling anyone. Everyone I know agrees that the restrictions are beyond moronic; however, what do we do about it? Who do we complain to? Who do we go to and say, "Ok, seriously, stop protecting us, we don't want to end up boarding planes in airline-issued jumpsuits and disposable foam flip-flops"? I think everyone feels like our hands are tied- the choices are either not to travel, or to adhere to whichever ridiculous rules have been cooked up to "protect" us.
What a money making service as well. This just amounts to another tax on travelers if they have liquids deemed dangerous by the powers that be.
Great graphic! Garnier Fructis bomb. Contemplating a Downey Ball bomb right now ;)