Plane Passengers can't buy donuts..

**Stuart** · 04-12-2006, 14:57

According to El Reg, the recently changed regulations have added one unusual item to the list of banned items.. Krispy Kreme Donuts.

Apparently, normal donuts are OK, but as one customer of Krispy Kreme at Heathrow found when he tried to buy some Krispy Kremes, the new regulations mean that the fillings are banned.

According to the actual regulations, the only things banned are "Liquid-based foods, sauces, stews, soups over 100ml in size."

**Hugh** · 04-12-2006, 15:10

So, in fact, the story is b*ll*cks - just some Mac-jobber getting it wrong.....

"But a spokesman for BAA denied they were stamping on Homer's favourite food. He said: "Passengers can take liquids in 100ml bottles carrried in a clear plastic bag. But passengers use common sense on foodstuffs. Sandwich fillings and the like are not restricted."

hatedbythemail · 04-12-2006, 15:10

yeah, but it's ok to take polonium 210 aboard

these regs stumble from absurdity to absurdity.

**Hugh** · 04-12-2006, 15:18

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Originally Posted by hatedbythemail

yeah, but it's ok to take polonium 210 aboard

these regs stumble from absurdity to absurdity.

Only "internally"

Here's an interesting take on the Polly210 story, from a SF author called Charlie Stross.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/ (go down to "A dirty question"
"The point is, someone with access to fresh Polonium 210 (read: less than a year old, hot from the reactor) decided to use it to bump off an enemy.
And the terrorism alert status hasn't risen a notch? Pull the other one.
Anyway, to the point: this wasn't simply an assassination. There are any number of poisons out there that would do the job painfully well but much more rapidly, and without the same scope for a diplomatic incident. Likewise, a bullet to the back of the head would have worked just as well (as witness the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya).

What this is, is a warning: "we have the capability to detonate a dirty bomb in central London any time we feel like it, so don't **** with us". (Just take Polonium and add a little TNT.)

Who the warning is from, and who the intended recipient is, are another question entirely. I don't think it's any accident that the COBRA committee was convened the day after Litvinenko's death (on a Saturday, no less). And I don't think it's any accident that the British press have been very carefully pretending the phrase "dirty bomb" is not part of their vocabulary for the past week.

We're actually facing a national security nightmare: someone has demonstrated the capability to use radiological weapons on the streets of London and we don't know who they are. (Although we can make a couple of guesses.)"

**Stuart** · 04-12-2006, 15:29

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

So, in fact, the story is b*ll*cks - just some Mac-jobber getting it wrong.....

"But a spokesman for BAA denied they were stamping on Homer's favourite food. He said: "Passengers can take liquids in 100ml bottles carrried in a clear plastic bag. But passengers use common sense on foodstuffs. Sandwich fillings and the like are not restricted."

Actually, the story isn't b*ll*cks, as it isn't about the supposedly banned sale of donuts, more that Krispy Kreme wouldn't sell them..

hatedbythemail · 04-12-2006, 15:32

cheers for cheering me up with that upbeat assessment of the polonium 210 story foreverwar. hope blair isn't reading that - he'll probably get the jitters and put the entire nation under house arrest

lauzjp · 04-12-2006, 15:59

mmm, donughts....

I glanced myself in shop windows yesterday... it called for drastic action. I cannot stand the sight of myself in a full length mirror. now where did I put that prozac.

sleeping = not eating =

being awake = eating =

maddyp · 05-12-2006, 22:39

i just love crispy creme donuts..and I would bet that the creamy loverly calorie laden chemical one that is my fave has over 100 ml of filling.

Apart from that..yes good point, very fishy incident indeed, 'cuse pun, ba jets all on alert to be cleaned as well? I've had loads of emails over the past few days from ba to reassure me that they jets are ok, they are being looked at and so on..yet nothing after 9/11 or 7 / 11 or any random notw reporter getting access to their planes...strange.