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NEWS > U.S.A. > TSA CONSIDERING BANNING BATHROOM BREAKS ON FLIGHTS
TSA CONSIDERING BANNING BATHROOM BREAKS ON FLIGHTS
November 28 2010
Washington, D.C. – We are perhaps a little spoiled n the modern world. Less than half a century ago the idea of travelling across the United States in only a couple of hours was something unimaginable. Cars are too slow, and trains take weeks but as
air flight started to, well to take off, the idea that travelling great distances need not take days or weeks but can be done in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie was little more than fantasy. Now that we have that ability, it has come to be expected.
No one ever said that flight was a right. Air travel has always been a consumer-driven business with dollars speaking first. However, over the last ten years the burden of air travel has for many taken away the convenience. Criticism over harsh and intrusive security techniques have only risen in the last few weeks as outrage over full body scans and detailed pat downs gain the ire of travellers but, like many things, such things may be the new standard in a post-9/11 world. Now though the TSA has fallen into a new fight with officials seriously considering a ban on bathroom breaks on all domestic flights, particularly after an incident with a severely incontinent Middle Eastern man on a flight last Tuesday. 
“On Tuesday we received word of a passenger on board a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Denver who had taken a significant number of bathroom breaks. Per standard procedures, law enforcement and TSA personnel met the flight. The passenger was questioned and released and the plane was swept, both with negative findings,” said a TSA spokesperson. “The onus on us it to protect the life and well being of all people aboard flights and we will do whatever is necessary to ensure that we are able to do just that. While this situation turned out to be a non-starter, we have a responsibility to investigate every single incident no matter how insignificant it may seem.”
It’s not clear whether the passenger had problems with number one or number two.
“This is a situation that highlights the inherent dangers in any kind of air travel. The hard reality is that so few of these situations can be anticipated and potential criminals and terrorists are often far beyond our capacity to stop them beforehand. Unfortunately we often can’t prevent these incidents until after one has already occurred,” said a TSA insider. “We’ve long been worried about the vulnerability of bathrooms on all flights. While we recognize that expelling waste is certainly a human necessity we have to consider for a moment the idea that terrorists could use this as a resource for exploitation. Realistically, we don’t have bathrooms in cars. People need to hold it until the car is able to stop and it may not be unreasonable to expect that air travellers be held to the same standard.”
A flight from New York to California takes about five hours. From New York to Hawaii, the time is about 10 hours, a very long time to hold it in.
“I think the majority of people accept that there are going to be inconveniences in any kind of air travel. People understand, for the most part, that travelling through the air is not like getting in your car and going down to the local supermarket. That said, there are limits to what people will tolerate,” said Scrape TV Airline analyst Jeffry Johnson. “I think that a lot of people would get upset at the notion of not being able to take a potty break on any flight, particularly the elderly, but I guess if that’s what needs to be done to safeguard the skies then it be an unavoidable reality. Hopefully they will at least allow for emergencies.”
The man on the flight was released scot free.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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