Plot to Bomb Jets Is Thwarted in Britain - New York Times

Officials were requiring passengers to check everything except personal items like keys, wallets, and passports, which they had to carry in plastic bags. Drinks and other liquid items were banned.

Travelers were required to remove spectacles or sunglasses from their cases, and those travelling with infants were required to taste any baby milk in front of security officials.

Sweet fancy Moses. I'm as big a fan of living a long life, and not being blown out of the sky over the North Atlantic as the next fellow, but this has to be some kind of joke.

Every time I take off my shoes, and now, when I have to travel carry-on/gel/liquid free and suck back breast milk in front of a TSA employee, I can't help but feel that, somewhere, a would-be terrorist is laughing at me.

Anybody taking bets on how long before we discover this plot wasn't really the grave threat it's cracked up to be? Peter King called it "very, very serious," and "the real deal," which all the proof I need that this alleged threat is probably nothing at all.