Before you travel by air, it is important to visit the TSA website for a list of prohibited items for airplanes. One reason is for security and now the other is to avoid possible fines. Visit http://www.tsa.gov, click on the "Travelers and Consumers" section until you find the link for "Air Travel - Prohibited Items". Can you imagine innocently packing for a flight, then finding out your going to miss your flight, and be hit with a fine for $500? Play it safe and read the TSA list first. Right now fines range from $250 up to $10,000. Visit tsa.gov today and you'll fine the list of possible fines.
In addition if you are found carrying prohibited items onto an airliner, the next time you travel you will likely be subjected to a higher level of security screening or maybe not allowed to travel at all.
Houston Chronicle
Feb. 21, 2004, 5:00PM
Airline passengers to face fines
TSA will levy penalties on people carrying banned items
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Anyone trying to sneak a knife onto an airplane could be fined
$250 and a passenger with an explosive could get as much as $10,000 under
new guidelines.
Thousands of airline passengers board planes every year carrying banned
items such as cuticle scissors, box cutters and guns.
Two tourists visiting an oceanside cliff in Australia set off on a sunrise photo session. While focusing on the beautiful view and the camera shot, the rock beneath them gave way and one of them fell to their death. They had both walked through dense brush to a secluded and possibly unstable, dangerous area. Many outside areas don't have signs warning about potentialy dangerous situations because it is impossible to cover all the ground necessary. Therefore, what is left is for us to be aware of our surroundings to understand potential hazards - which could be falling rocks, mudslides and more.
Two tourists visiting an oceanside cliff in Australia set off on a sunrise photo session. While focusing on the beautiful view and the camera shot, the rock beneath them gave way and one of them fell to their death. They had both walked through dense brush to a secluded and possibly unstable, dangerous area. Many outside areas don't have signs warning about potentialy dangerous situations because it is impossible to cover all the ground necessary. Therefore, what is left is for us to be aware of our surroundings to understand potential hazards - which could be falling rocks, mudslides and more.
However, before visiting an area, obtain maps that might possibly designate unsafe areas to explore. It is also a good idea to ask local residents for this kind of information.
Sydney Morning Herald
Syndey, Australia
Tourist killed while being photographed at sunrise
By Frank Walker
February 22, 2004
Two Austrian tourists' first glimpse of an Australian dawn ended in tragedy
when one was crushed to death in a rock fall.
The men, both in their late 30s, arrived in Sydney from Austria on Friday to
stay with friends in Avalon.
Early yesterday they decided to photograph the sunrise from a secluded cliff
north of Avalon Beach.