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I went to six flags with my little cousins. I knew I would be waiting for them while they waited in line for rides like Superman ( 2 hour WAIT!!!) so I brought my Hogwarts Harry Potter scarf I had been working on. Thought it would kill some time. Security took the bag because its considered dangerous sharp objects. I had to leave it with them until I left the park. Thats crazy!!! Anyone else agree???
What exactly did they think you were you going to do? Hijack a roller coaster? :roll: Do they take away pens and pencils too? Weird.
The land of the free…
EXACTLY!! WOW! But you can take them on airplanes! Go figure!! :shrug:
Well, look at it another way. If you’d been on a ride that whirled you around a lot and the bag happened to come undone and one of the knitting needles flew through the air at someone - it could do serious injury. I can actually understand them removing it but it’s a wonder they allow them on planes these days. In cabin luggage I mean.
Well, nobody takes bags on the rides anyway, so they could haev done no harm whatsoever. I suppose they thought that u could kill more than time with the knitting needles :teehee: . seriously what are you gonna say, “Do as I say or i’ll pull out the knitting needles”? :roll:
(welcome to KH, btw :waving: )
Oh well…fair enough if they’re not taken on rides BUT remember the US man who walked along busy streets and would stab women in the back with a long syringe needle? One woman was very very lucky not to have been paralysed as apparently it just missed her spinal cord. Whereever there are crowds and lots of people the nutters can appear. Maybe it wasn’t so much what the young lady may have done with them but some fool who grabbed them and made off with them. It doesn’t take much to sharpen a knitting needle you know 
I can see both sides but these days I’d rather they acted too cautiously than too liberally.
Sometimes I wonder about these security checks. We have passes to Disneyland and they now check your purses/backpacks/bags…HOWEVER, they do not check anyone’s pocket contents. My DH carries a pretty good size pocket knife a lot of times (holdover from fire dept days) and they have yet to check him, but they check my bag. :??
Good point Jan. It would be fruitful to just pass people through detectors - it wouldn’t slow up human traffic any more than direct bag searches do.
Everyone always jokes with my that Options would make for a perfect garat and alibi. Which makes me a little nervous that they’re still allowed on planes, but I feel a lot better know that they’re in my pocket when I walk home after work. :roflhard:
We are not allowed knitting needles at all on the plane in Europe … :pout: They have to go in the checked in luggage.
Is that in all of Europe or just the UK?
I was amazed to find as I ran to catch my connecting flight in Heathrow to the US from Paris that we could only bring 1 carry on through the UK. We had traveled from NY to France and then France to the UK with 2 and no one mentioned anything about the new regulation of only 1 carry on. :!!!: Bummer.
Of course, we missed our flight, partly due to that (and a several hour delay in Paris :doh: )
I was glad I had decided to leave my knitting in the States and not even attempt to bring it along.
Ok, so some lady with knitting needles is a dangerous threat but a seriously depressed and psychotic student is allowed to to buy a gun and ammunition and go completely unnoticed.
And what exactly do you need to sharpen knitting needles to a point where they would be dangerous?
I can see if you were carrying knitting needles AND heavy grit sandpaper or they caught you frantically rubbing your needles on the pavement – just how long would it take to make a needle sharp enough to be a threat?
It’s like the mentality that lingers about taking liquids on a plane. There was an article in a UK paper about what would really have to happen in order for those liquids to be combined and made into an explosive and on an average flight there wouldn’t even be the time but still, we can’t carry more than 3 - 1 oz bottles.
No, I don’t think that erring on the side of caution is better than being intelligent but seeing as there is no real intelligence about this issue on the whole and we don’t want to spend any real money on security and continue to entrust our safety to minimum wage security guards, we can just spend the next 21 months (638 days and 6 hours and 23 minutes as of right now) hoping and praying that it will get better.
Hmm…passions can run high on topics like this can’t they No need to get personal and no need for me to explain how you can sharpen knitting needles without sandpaper. I don’t agree with open gun laws by the way but many folk argue for their maintenance.
I’ll leave the topic because this is one of perspectives and I only gave my opinion. Differing opinions can generate new thoughts and some perspectives here made me think again about what I said. I’m not much interested in working towards political discussions on a knitting forum. Cheers
I didn’t mean for this to get personal. Really. 
It’s just that knitting is one of the things that keeps me sane through all the insanity. And they want to take our needles away :waah:
WHY CAN"T THEY JUST LEAVE OUR KNITTING ALONE!
I promise I’ll only bring along my Denise’s. I don’t think they will pose a threat. Just let me wait on line at the DMV or Disney or in the airport or even on the plane but let me do it with my knitting. 
And BTW, in real life, my name is Susan P. also. :teehee:
Gee, that is too bad they took them away. But in this day and age…they don’t know who is going to do “what”. I guess now days it better to be “safe than sorry”. I don’t think it has anything to do with “home of the free”. They want to KEEP us free of evil.
And it’s very possible that what the park is trying to prevent is unintentional damage and injury - needles falling and jamming equipment, or the one person that still takes their bag on the ride b/c they don’t trust the lockers or don’t have someone to hold it for them… Maybe it would never happen, but since we’re such a law-suit happy society, the minute something did, the park would be held liable.
zkimom. Well…thanks for the nice post. You can stop wailing now.
You DO realise the irony in your avatar don’t you LOL
The reason I try to look at issues from the ‘other’ perspective is simply because until you do a job you just never know all the issues and risks people have to consider. It would be interesting to contact the park and ask about the rule; asking in the collegiate sense of genuinely wanting to know. Quiltlady and Vendie gave some causal reasons and one just never knows.
Don’t worry, I think many of us find solace in knitting. I may have to put all my things into temporary storage for a while and the knitting boxes are all going to the front and my current projects in my car! It was one of the first things I thought of!
Well, knitting needles are awfully sharp without being sharpened. Check out this knitting injury!
http://www.anastaciaknits.blogspot.com/
But would they have taken away a crochet hook?
:passedout: @ at that picture…